Thousands of parents across the country and here in Illinois are concerned about Common Core standards, PARCC testing on those standards, and the accumulation and storage of their children’s personal ...

A new battery of Common Core-based tests proved to be trouble for some of the best students in Baton Rouge metro area public schools The tests, known at PARCC, short for Partnership for Assessment of ...

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP - The Egg Harbor Township Board of Education unanimously voted on Tuesday, June 24 to support state legislation that places a moratorium on the use of student growth percentiles in ...

Gov. Bobby Jindal's long-awaited announcement of his plans to scuttle the Common Core academic standards in Louisiana set off a political scramble and procedural tug-of-war Wednesday. It left the ...

In early May 2016, the New Jersey State Board of Education approved the New Jersey Student Learning Standards, the revised and renamed Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Gov. Chris Christie (R) ...

The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a federally funded testing consortium aligned with Common Core, is in the spotlight once again. Though it administered the ...

Sen. Frank Niceley, R-Strawberry Plains, says he thinks he has the votes to pass the House-approved two-year delay in the PARCC test and Common Core if he can get it to the Senate floor. His problem, ...

The State Board of Education met in Gainesville on Tuesday to discuss Common Core State Standards and the future assessment test that will be used to measure academic performance in Floridas schools.

Critics of a new student exam linked to controversial education standards won a small victory Wednesday when the House adopted a compromise putting off testing for one year. The House of ...