What it is: The state Department of Education sent to districts at the end of the school year the “CCSS Implementation Curriculum Evaluation Tool” to ensure they would have language arts and math ...

With educators on the lookout for instructional materials that fit the content and vision of the common-core standards, a new set of “publishers’ criteria” aims to influence decisions by both the ...

Although Common Core State Standards were adopted in Massachusetts in 2010, the topic is still a lightning rod for impassioned critique and opinion. There is even an initiative, “End Common Core MA,” ...

In math, students develop an understanding of fractions as numbers. They learn the concepts behind multiplication and division and apply problem-solving skills and strategies for multiplying and ...

(TNS) -- Frustrated parents headed to Sisk Elementary School seeking the insider code that would help them decipher Common Core mathematics. “I’m so stressed by this math!” said grandmother Diana ...