Under the new Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts, students are learning to dissect, analyze, and comprehend the type of complex reading they will encounter in college and the ...

Route 66, America’s most celebrated highway, is something altogether different today. It is no longer “the best” way to get from Chicago to the West Coast. In many places, the historic road is buried ...

Eight years later, have the Common Core State Standards led to a revolution in how reading and writing are taught? Not exactly. Teachers have shifted practices dramatically on vocabulary and assigning ...

Teachers believe the Common Core standards in their states can improve how they teach writing, but they also find plenty of shortcomings with the standards -- and with the associated state writing ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. DeSantis announced Thursday that he intends to end Common Core in the state, but Florida has done this all before. In 2013, then Gov. Rick Scott ordered the state to withdraw from ...

If you have kids in school or you teach schoolchildren, you must remember those halcyon days of 2008, when the idea of a Common Core (CC) to direct and track all American children along educational ...

: [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This story incorrectly states that the U.S. government removed cursive from “Common Core” standards. In fact, the common core standards are set by a group of governors ...

Morgan Polikoff receives funding from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305C150007 to the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education. The ...