The Common Core standards create consistent and rigorous expectations for what students need to learn and be able to do from kindergarten through high school to prepare for college and 21st-century ...

North Carolina has invested tens of millions of dollars to implement the Common Core academic standards that could eventually be abandoned in public schools statewide. State lawmakers on Wednesday ...

Supporters of the Common Core State Standards are moving to confront increasingly high-profile opposition to the standards at the state and national levels by rallying the private sector and ...

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 ...

The Charleston County School District approved a $383,161,659 budget June 24. The budget included a number of significant district priorities and will support many initiatives which will enhance ...

Betty Jones, of Keystone Elementary, studies training material to bring back to her school, Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in Memphis, Tenn. Teachers participated in a state wide Common Core training program ...