A member of the Common Core review committee quit her post Monday and said the process is geared to keeping the academic standards intact. Margo Guilott, a retired educator who lives in Slidell, ...

As in many states, Louisiana’s Common Core review is the result of years of pressure from parents and politicians. Last year, lawmakers — in an effort to neutralize the issue in the months leading up ...

PULASKI, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Gov. Bill Haslam insists that his decision this week to hold a public review of Common Core doesn't signal a retreat from the education standards in view of heavy ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (April 14, 2015) –Lieutenant Governor Tim Griffin announced on Tuesday the details of the nine listening tour stops and five Little Rock hearings for the Governor's Council on Common ...

The seemingly endless legislative fight over Common Core ended quietly Tuesday. The Louisiana House, without debate, approved the last of three bills that lawmakers hope will help quiet the ...

Last week, the state Education Department quietly posted school-by-school breakdowns of student scores on the PARCC test, used in 2014-15, that was aligned with Common Core.

Mississippi is in a precarious position regarding the Common Core national academic standards. Amid a large grassroots movement against the K–12 math and English standards, legislators opted to review ...

When grassroots parents discovered big-education elitists had kept them in the dark about the Common Core (CC) experiment being conducted on their children, they helped to shine a bright light on the ...

It's crucial that Louisiana keep to its current path, some business leaders say. The Jefferson Chamber of Commerce, the Jefferson Business Council, the Council for a Better Louisiana, the Greater New ...

In a soon-to-be-released survey, 47.8 percent of respondents said conducting a review of the Common Core assessments to ensure they are age and grade appropriate is the most important improvement that ...

A survey answered by 975 Arkansas teachers in grades 3-12 found that 61% would keep the Common Core State Standards while 39% would eliminate them. However, 87% said they "don't like the testing ...

Arkansas is one of 43 states that have adopted Common Core standards for schools.Common Core is a set of standards for math and English language arts that, according to the state, is the best for ...