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US reading scores have reached their lowest point in two decades as students struggle with basic comprehension. New data ...
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Reading scores stagnated. Math scores jumped compared with the early '90s, but haven't gone up in a decade. What's happening to America's students?
Common Core appears to have failed in its purpose of raising educational standards across the board. Instead, test scores are down and some states are weighing withdrawing from the program.
Here comes another Common Core professional development session. Getty The Common Core State Standards are dead. Done. Finished. Authorities have told us so.
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 ...
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 ...
Eight years later, have the Common Core State Standards led to a revolution in how reading and writing are taught? Not exactly. Teachers have shifted practices dramatically on vocabulary and ...
Common Core, a national set of education standards, pushes students to understand math on a deeper level, digging into the reasoning behind an equation. Proponents say it will increase the rigor ...
South Dakota last updated its reading, writing and math standards in 2010 when it adopted Common Core, which was developed a year prior to standardize from state to state what students should know ...
Two common reading level systems are exceptions to this: Fountas and Pinnell’s Guided Reading program uses letters, from A to Z, while the increasingly popular Lexile leveling scheme rates both ...