Route 66, America’s most celebrated highway, is something altogether different today. It is no longer “the best” way to get from Chicago to the West Coast. In many places, the historic road is buried ...

If you haven’t yet seen the excellent new package of stories about writing instruction in the common-core era by our Education Week Teacher team, you’ll want to head there right away. The upshot of ...

Teachers believe the Common Core standards in their states can improve how they teach writing, but they also find plenty of shortcomings with the standards -- and with the associated state writing ...

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 ...

Reading, Writing, and the Common Core State Standards Under the new Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts, students are learning to dissect, analyze, and comprehend the type of complex ...

One of the few things that unites Americans across the political spectrum in this age of partisan polarization is disdain for modern math instruction. From the far left to the far right, you can find ...

Although the State Board of Education adopted new Common Core standards in math and English language arts nearly seven years ago, some school districts are still in the process of implementing them.

Cursive-writing requirement among the most significant changes to standards Board vote concludes nearly two years of deliberation on Arizona's learning standards State Superintendent Diane Douglas ...