Education Week

Advocates Worry Implementation Could Derail Common Core

In less than three years, the Common Core State Standards have vaulted over three key hurdles, surprising more than a few naysayers. In June 2009, governors and education chiefs in 46 states pledged ...
Education Week

Trimming the Cost of Common-Core Implementation

The Common Core State Standards are designed to have a transformative effect on teaching and learning in the United States. But, as we all know, the 46 states and the District of Columbia that have ...
Center for American Progress

RELEASE: Recommendations for Common Core Assessment Implementation

Washington, D.C. – The transition to the Common Core State Standards offers an important opportunity to replace America’s flawed and misaligned assessment system with better and fairer tests, ...
Center for American Progress

How to Support Common Core Implementation

With the widespread adoption of the Common Core State Standards, public education in the United States is poised to take a major step forward in readying the next generation of Americans for success ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana

EDITORIAL: Keep moving on Common Core implementation

While people like U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita and Indiana lawmakers push back against Common Core standards, schools are going forward with implementation. The schools are right to do so. The Common Core ...
American Enterprise Institute

The Common Core Implementation Minefield

I have an article out today over at Education Next looking through the Common Core implementation glass darkly. As I say in the piece, for a variety of reasons (some of which were enumerated by Bill ...
American Enterprise Institute

Obamacare’s Lessons for the Common Core

Critics of the Common Core reading and math standards adopted by forty-odd states since 2010 have taken to calling them “Obamacore,” in a play on health care reform. The “Obamacore” moniker reflects ...
Heartland

Michigan House Blocks Common Core Implementation (updated)

The Michigan House passed a budget bill prohibiting the state department of education from using state money to implement the Common Core national education standards and associated tests. The Senate ...
Newsday

Sen. Ken LaValle seeks delay in Common Core implementation

Lawmakers are calling on State Education Commissioner John King to delay the state's continued implementation of the Common Core curriculum. Sen. Ken LaValle, along with other state lawmakers, met at ...
WAFB

Your Turn: Common Core Implementation

This week's "Your Turn" segment goes to Robin Gordon. Gordon is one of many people complaining about Common Core, and some parents are opting their children our of the associated PARCC test. Gordon ...
Heartland

First Common Core Lawsuit Tossed Out

A Kentucky judge has thrown out the nation’s first lawsuit against Common Core, saying the plaintiff had no standing to bring the suit and did not demonstrate a “unique, personal injury.” David ...