Most readers know that the common core highlighted the importance of reading and writing based on texts, not just on personal experience or creative writing—by far the most dominant kind in U.S ...

Specifically, 35% of fourth graders were proficient in reading in 2019, slightly down from 37% in 2017 and barely up from 33% of such students considered proficient a decade ago, in 2009.

Part 1 in a four-part series on reading in the Common Core era. The Common Core State Standards are changing what many kids read in school. They're standards, sure — not curriculum. Teachers and ...

Fordham stands by the Core's insistence that students be given grade-level texts rather than reading-level texts (in other words, if your eighth grader is reading at fourth grade level, she should ...

Common Core may have, at ... (Or “How Common Core Almost Broke Reading”) ByPeter Greene. ... (just because I can read a high-level book about dinosaurs doesn’t mean I can also read a ...

The math common-core standards and Texas’s math standards rated a 9 out of 10, meaning that the reviewers see them as “strong” standards that states should continue to put into practice.

The Common Core State Standards are changing reading instruction in many schools. And that means new challenges for lots of students, even traditional high achievers.

In 2017, North Carolina adopted new math and reading standards, after deciding to “un-adopt” the Common Core standards. In deciding to chart its own course, the state was well within its rights.