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 ...

This is another story in KPCC's ongoing series, Classroom Core, that takes a close look at how the Common Core teaching standards are playing out in schools in Southern California. When veteran ...

In high schools across Denver, chemistry teachers are working from a new set of lessons. The topic: “Should the United States say yes or no to nuclear power?” On their way to answering that question, ...

Ten years ago, states across the country began to embrace a new set of tougher learning standards in public schools. This new model, called Common Core, was meant to transform how students are taught ...

Over the past four years, about 100 bills to curtail or repeal the Common Core learning standards were introduced in state legislatures across the nation. Five states today are replacing the standards ...