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ALBANY -- The state Education Department on Wednesday released 75 percent of questions from last April's Common Core-based tests for students in third through eighth grades. The release of the tests ...

This post first appeared in Business Insider. The Common Core has come under fire by parents who say the new education standards make math needlessly complicated. Last week, the New York Times’ Motoko ...

Amid growing calls for the state to release all questions from its new math and English tests, the Education Department on Wednesday released about half the questions from this year's tests. The state ...

Amid growing calls for the state to release all questions from its new math and English tests, the Education Department on Wednesday released about half the questions from this year's tests. The state ...

The Common Core has come under fire by parents who say the new education standards make math needlessly complicated. Schools have adopted new ways of teaching subtraction and multiplication, and ...

Bigfoot helped eighth-graders take a giant educational step in this year’s Common Core proficiency exams. After reading an excerpt about a mud fossil and an analysis of mysterious hair samples that ...

Yesterday, the New York state education department announced it was releasing 75 percent of the multiple-choice items from its 2016 common-core-aligned math and English/language arts tests, and that ...

Forty-two states and the District of Columbia are now using the same math and English standards, but the tests they use to determine how well students have mastered them still vary significantly. One ...

Amid growing calls for the state to release all questions from its new math and English tests, the Education Department on Wednesday released about half the questions from this year's tests. The state ...

The dispute over the Common Core has spilled over to the testing meant to measure whether students are meeting the national standards. Two testing consortiums — the Smarter Balanced Assessment ...