There are plenty of rational arguments for why the Common Core State Standards Initiative is not the solution to reforming public education in the United States. That the program is part of a ...

Both the acerbic comedian and the action star-turned-activist have come down hard on the Common Core academic ... critical mass when the core becomes a frequent punch line in the repertoire ...

Medicaid Reform Falls Short for People with Disabilities The new Common ... plot by the Obama administration. Malkin warns that they will “eliminate American children’s core knowledge base ...

The federal government has spent billions to move Common Core forward, and it has put billions more on the line. Unfortunately, parents, teachers, tea-party activists, and governors have every ...

Take for example, this interesting piece, Common Core vs. the Koch Bros. Agenda, by Opt-Out leader, Morna McDermott, which I read as an attempt to draw a line of demarcation between her group and ...

Apparently, many people fear the initiative is some sort of government plot to take over our schools. In fact, a photo that accompanied a Sunday story about Common Core showed an Alabama protester ...

The Common Core State Standards were envisioned as a way to measure most of the nation's students against a shared benchmark, but education experts say political upheaval and the messy reality of ...

ALBANY—Last week, Republican attorney general candidate John Cahill voiced his support of the Common Core academic standards. On Tuesday, his campaign indicated he would run on a ballot line ...

Are Common Core curricula standards a good thing? Not exactly. Dr. Sandra Stotsky, University of Arkansas, was a member of Common Core’s Validation Committee. She refused to sign off on Common ...

But his line to the chiefs on common core was, “Rebrand it, refocus it, but don’t retreat.” That’s different than “Common core is dead,” something he certainly did not tell the state ...