Fifth-grade teacher Dean Lapke shows his students how to figure out the order of operations for math problems involving exponents at Highland Elementary School in Billings last week. Students receive ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. MIAMI, FL — When Gov. Rick Scott announced last week he was pulling Florida out of a multi-state consortium working to create ...

The education standards in Wisconsin classrooms face an uncertain future. Over the weekend, governors from across the country met for the National Governors Association in Nashville. Education reform ...

What the public has heard about the controversy over national Common Core school standards largely fails to include the substance of that debate: whether the national curriculum and testing mandates ...

In 2010, a who’s who of American educators and politicians joined forces to spearhead a national initiative with wide appeal and few, if any, critics. It was called the Common Core. The pols and ...

A controversial bill to repeal Ohio’s Common Core school standards died quietly this week without a vote, but educators and state legislators expect the issue to be revived next year in some form.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Regarding "Missouri considers dropping Common Core school standards" (April 27): This is terrifying. For the first time in memory ...

LAFAYETTE — Common Core education standards, proposals to change local School Board governance and funding for roads and bridges are among the issues Lafayette-area legislators said they will continue ...

It is a frightening measure of courage, or rather lack of it, in Louisiana politics: Three of four leading candidates for governor quail before political pressure over Common Core school standards.