Compiled by a team of teacher researchers, a digital curriculum platform is adding more than 750 free, Common Core-aligned lesson plans in math and English language arts for grades 2 to 12. The lesson ...

A new study found that teachers are mainly relying on homegrown instructional materials, created either by themselves or their district colleagues, to meet the Common Core State Standards. But as many ...

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 ...

Disappointed by existing English/language arts curricula that were supposedly aligned to the Common Core State Standards, officials at the Louisiana education department decided to enlist teachers and ...

Every so often, K-12 schooling witnesses the rise of an intuitive, easy-to-like, bipartisan reform push that’s backed by deep-pocketed funders and a lot of recognizable names. While this alignment of ...

Last year, only 34.5 percent of city students in grades 3 to 8 passed the math exams, and 29.4 percent passed in reading and writing. Overall, officials said, the scores inched up slightly from the ...

Not everything's a walk in the PARCC. So how did the field tests fare, according to the test administrators, test coordinators, and students who tested the test? The report found that overall, the ...

Heather Clydesdale on how world language teachers can align their curriculum with the Common Core State Standards. This article covers a breakout session on that very topic from the 2015 National ...

With fewer questions and no time limits, this month’s Common Core tests in English Language Arts and math will still be a challenge for city students. It’s the fourth year of the statewide exams that ...