This is a cross post from the Politics K-12 blog, which covers federal education policy. As states continue to address the Common Core State Standards in various ways, more and more people have been ...

As states continue to address the Common Core State Standards in various ways, more and more people have been wondering about the status of the common core nationally. It’s a complicated issue, in ...

What’s the fuss about? Steve Rhodes, CC BY-NC-ND Beginning in 2010, mathematics and English language arts standards, called the Common Core State Standards, were adopted in 45 of 50 U.S. states. The ...

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In a speech in Washington earlier this year, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos called the education standards known as the Common Core a “disaster” and proclaimed: “At the U.S. Department of ...