Education Week

Politics K-12

Did President Trump eliminate the Common Core State Standards? No. U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, speaking before a receptive audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference ...
Forbes

The Little-Known Flaw Behind The ‘Failure’ Of The Common Core

The people who came up with the idea of the Common Core saw reading comprehension as a content-neutral set of skills, leading to massive confusion. The Common Core may be the most misunderstood ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Literacy for Science: Exploring the Intersection of the Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core for ELA Standards: A Workshop Summary

HOW DO CCSS FOR ELA AND NGSS WORK TOGETHER? In her presentation, Susan Pimentel, a planning committee member, principal of Student Achievement Partners, and one of the developers of the Common Core ...
The Washington Post

Why the Common Core standards failed — and what it means for school reform

The Common Core State Standards was one of the biggest initiatives in decades aimed at changing public education — and like many school “reforms” in the era of high-stakes standardized testing, it did ...
Heartland

Research & Commentary: Common Core is Causing Massachusetts NAEP Scores to Decline at Historic Rate

The adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has led to a “historic” drop in student achievement scores on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test, also known as the ...