It’s been a rough year for the Common Core standards. As parents, teachers, officials, and politicians learn more about the standards, more and more states are considering ways to get out of Common ...

The learning standards were new. The textbooks were not. So curriculum director Tammy Baumann and her team took the books apart, literally. Then they rearranged lessons, filled in holes with outside ...

Advocate staff photo by BRAD BOWIE -- Judith Cain, an eighth grade math teacher at Paul Breaux, answers a question during a summer training session for math teachers from around Lafayette parish at ...

Many teachers thought Bennett “arrogant and heavy-handed,” said Indianapolis mother Heather Crossin, whose children attend public and parochial schools. Crossin has traveled the state to argue against ...

Paul Halley recently wrote in a letter to the editor that New Jersey’s teacher shortage could be resolved if the state did away with Core Curriculum Standards. (The federal program, which started in ...