At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the painting “El Jaleo” —a canvas spanning 11 feet that features a flamenco dancer—is a popular starting point for getting students to spend time with ...

As educators across the country implement the Common Core State Standards, we see two paths emerging ... and diverging. The first path treats the common core as just another set of standards to ...

After 10 years, Common Core isn’t living up to its promise — even while teachers say it’s changed the classroom experience for the better. Ten years ago, states across the country began to embrace a ...

The Common Core State Standards are dead. Done. Finished. Authorities have told us so. Betsy DeVos delivered a brief eulogy at the American Enterprise Institute earlier this month. “And at the U.S.

Tom Loveless has long been a clear-eyed incisive critic of the Common Core State Standards. A year ago, he wrote In short, the evidence suggests student achievement is, at best, about where it would ...

With another school year underway and arguments about Common Core still raging on, AEI scholars have been weighing in on the issue. Just on Tuesday, AEI Resident Scholar Rick Hess participated in an ...

CONCORD — The battle lines are being drawn over the state Board of Education decision to implement the controversial Common Core standards statewide. Conservative groups opposing the standards and the ...

One of the three lead writers of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a national initiative with roots in No Child Left Behind and other federal government education programs, recently told a ...

While students and teachers settle into using the Common Core, a group of lawmakers is trying to build grassroots support for stripping the multistate education standards from Louisiana’s public ...

PARCC administrators manual. The Louisiana Department of Education released new school-by. -school data on the test results on Thursday, Oct. 22. (Photo by Ty Wright, Associated Press.) (Ty Wright, ...