COLUMBIA - KOMU 8 News learned Thursday some local students will take practice tests this spring to help school districts evaluate if they are ready to give new computerized tests next year. Students ...

Our celebrity panel's results for the Common Core sample quiz question No. 6. Common Core puts a new emphasis on nonfiction -- as you can see from Monday's three-point question, which might have made ...

For nearly an hour, Dowan McNair-Lee has been walking her 8th grade English/language arts students through ways to identify the central idea of a text. She’s come at it from several angles, and no ...

Our celebrity panel for the Common Core sample quiz aced Question No. 1, starting the 10-question quiz off with a four-way tie. (Dan Swenson, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) Our celebrity panel aced ...

Teachers who reported using at least one textbook aligned to the Common Core State Standards were more likely to report engaging students in key mathematical practices that those who didn’t, according ...

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right-tilted think tank and longtime staunch supporter of the Common Core, just released a survey of ELA teachers and some attendant conclusions about how the Common ...

Part 1 in a four-part series on reading in the Common Core era. The Common Core State Standards are changing what many kids read in school. They're standards, sure — not curriculum. Teachers and ...

The Florida Board of Education is prepared to follow Gov. Rick Scott's play book on standards and assessments when it meets next week in Tampa. The board is scheduled to confirm that it will not adopt ...