Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 20—I stared at the last question on my daughter's first-grade math homework as if doing so until my eyes grew callouses would ...

Student work posted in an elementary school before the pandemic shows the “partial product” method of solving a multiplication problem, one of many methods students have learned with Common Core.

Two years ago I walked into a car rental return center in Charlotte and interrupted Adrianette Felix mid-rant. “I can’t even help my own child do her homework, it’s so frustrating, and I feel so ...