Missouri public school children spent untold hours this spring prepping for a new computer-based standardized test. It required written essays, details to back up answers, and raised concerns that ...

Video: New Orleans military mom explains why she supports Common Core Amanda Stenson says when the military transferred her family to New Orleans, her children were three grades ahead. Gov. Bobby ...

A majority of students refused to take the Common Core assessment tests in several local school districts this year while scores for those who took the exams rose incrementally. The opt-out rates ...

Neighboring Mississippi is also having problems with Common Core testing contracts, a local paper reports. (Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) The state Education Department wants to ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Common Core Task Force assembled by Governor Andrew Cuomo issued its final report Thursday. The report calls for an overhaul of the Common Core system. Sam Radford is the ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Opponents of Common Core have another tool to chip away at the embattled national education standards: a recent Missouri court ruling said the state's membership in a group that ...

After being criticized for an alleged lack of transparency, the state Education Department plans to release a larger portion of this year’s Common Core-based exams in July. About 25 percent of last ...