Last week, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan gave a speech to the Society of News Editors that Education Week called “The strongest defense yet of Common Core Standards.” In it, he said that the ...

PITTSBURGH — With a growing number of Catholic-school educators and parents raising concerns about the Common Core education curriculum, Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik penned a March 18 letter that ...

Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s recent comments disparaging “white suburban moms” for protesting new national tests and curriculum mandates are not the isolated remarks of an out-of-touch elitist.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - State Education Superintendent John White says a Baton Rouge judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking to end Louisiana's use of the Common Core education standards in public ...

Senate Bill 193 puts the Common Core on hold while the state department of education conducts information meetings in each of Indiana’s nine congressional districts. It requires a state board of ...

Maryland Republican gubernatorial hopeful David R. Craig is calling for the state to withdraw its participation from a national education test that is part of the Common Core State Standards ...

It’s time for the public to do its homework on Common Core. That’s the argument made by The Times’ editorial board in Sunday’s paper. Citing a Gallup poll that found two in three Americans had never ...

Lots of learning is taking place in Melissa Scriver’s second-grade classroom at Northside Elementary School in La Crosse. The math lesson is being taught using a new set of statewide standards called ...

The chair of Ohio’s House Education Committee, Richard Ross, recently promised to fight “kicking and screaming” against any efforts to prevent implementation of the “Common Core” education standards.