Education Week

Into the Common Core: One Classroom’s Journey

For nearly an hour, Dowan McNair-Lee has been walking her 8th grade English/language arts students through ways to identify the central idea of a text. She’s come at it from several angles, and no ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Common core brings rigor, anxiety to classrooms

School is in session at Elite Scholars Academy and there's something new this year other than notebooks, pencils and clothes -- the academic standards. The year-round Clayton County charter school is ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

Postcards From The Common Core Classroom

The Common Core State Standards mean big changes in classrooms across the country. This... is the sound of that change. Postcards From The Common Core Classroom Postcards From The Common Core ...
The Hechinger Report

Common Core slow to change English classrooms

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. English teachers ...
Education Week

Did the Common Core Kill Classroom Assessment?

Next year marks the 10-year anniversary of the Common Core State Standards; the Next Generation Science Standards have been around nearly as long. The majority of states have officially adopted one or ...
WPBF

Common Core eradicated from Florida classrooms, Gov. DeSantis says

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday that Common Core has officially been eradicated from Florida classrooms. "Florida has officially eliminated Common Core," said DeSantis in a press release. "I truly ...
Connecticut Post

Common Core curriculum has varying results in CT classrooms, teachers say

Since Connecticut adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in 2010, teachers have been teaching the same curriculum at the same time, but they have been having very different experiences in the ...
WPTV-TV

Common Core 'officially eradicated' from classrooms, says Florida Department of Education

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Common Core is officially done in Florida with the state's Department of Education saying it has been "officially eradicated" from classrooms. The department said in a news release ...
The Advocate

Federal funds used to get Common Core into states, influence classroom instruction, former U.S. Department of Education official testifies

The U.S. Department of Education coerced Louisiana and dozens of other states into adopting Common Core academic standards and assessments by dangling grant money in front of them, a former department ...
WRAL

WUNC goes inside a Common Core classroom

As she wraps up class, fourth-grade teacher Rosalyn Bailey walks by each table, hovers over each child and points at the math assignment. “What’s two-tenths plus four-tenths?” Bailey asks one of her ...
The Post-Journal

Common Core Classroom

All Jamestown eighth- or ninth-grade students, who are beginning their algebra instruction this school year, must take the new Common Core Algebra 1 Regents that will be given for the first time on ...