PHOENIX — Unable to kill outright the Common Core program, state senators now are moving to let schools opt out of the national education standards. On a voice vote Wednesday, the Senate approved SB ...

The Common Core State Standards is a new initiative that outlines literacy and mathematics expectations for K-12 schools across the country. iStock For all of their superficial similarities, the ...

Silver said no one is saying the Common Core program has to be scrapped. “You can’t propose an entirely new curriculum and entirely new set of standards and say, ‘Here it is, teach to it and we’re ...

We see all this talk on Gov. Bobby Jindal and Sen. David Vitter changing views on Common Core, but what is the truth on Common Core in Louisiana? Does Common Core dumb down education in Louisiana like ...