BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - State Education Superintendent John White says a Baton Rouge judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking to end Louisiana's use of the Common Core education standards in public ...

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...

The Missouri Legislature awaits the signature of Gov. Jay Nixon on HB 1490, a bill that would replace national Common Core education mandates with Missouri’s own set of educational criteria. This bill ...

But more importantly, Santa Ana's new superintendent says, students will have a better understanding of the subject matter because teachers aren't just "teaching to the test." In Santa Ana classrooms, ...

North Carolina legislators have introduced a proposal that would require their state to examine national Common Core education standards. Over the last few years, North Carolina and 44 other states ...

PITTSBURGH — With a growing number of Catholic-school educators and parents raising concerns about the Common Core education curriculum, Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik penned a March 18 letter that ...

Growing opposition to the Common Core academic standards for the nation’s public schools is threatening to slow down and derail the initiative. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia ...

BISMARCK - Education and business leaders spoke out Monday against a bill that would sever North Dakota's ties to the Common Core education standards and replace them with standards developed by a ...

Sara Wood, a parent from St. Tammany, speaks in opposition of Common Core during a town hall meeting on the Common Core education standards on October 1, 2013. (Photo by Kathleen Flynn, Nola.com / The ...

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Scott Richard, the Louisiana School Boards Association's executive director, criticized the Louisiana Department of Education's roll out of the Common Core educational standards. Louisiana's ...