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The Common Core has come under fire by parents who say the new education standards make math needlessly complicated. Schools have adopted new ways of teaching subtraction and multiplication, and ...

With New York state ready to hand out the Common Core exam, just how tough is the test? See how much math you remember from grade school with these sample questions from the Grade 8 Mathematics ...

EdSource is conducting a series of interviews featuring educators’ experiences with the Common Core State Standards. For more information about the Common Core, check out our guide. Jason Zimba, 45, a ...

You might also remember the photo of a check that went viral not that long ago — a man filled out a check to his son’s school by attempting to write the check amount in ten frames. There have been ...

Brandy Frakes, an elementary school teacher at the Aspire University Charter School in Modesto, is tackling one of the greatest challenges facing educators: building support among bewildered parents ...

Statements from publishers that traditional instructional materials are aligned with the Common Core State Standards are largely a “sham,” according to a prominent researcher who conducted one of two ...

Across Pennsylvania, an increasing number of parents are refusing to allow their children to take state standardized tests. Dawn Sweeney is one of them.As a way to protest Pennsylvania’s Common Core ...

The Common Core's approach to math has proved among the most contentious aspects of the controversial national teaching standards. In short, the new methods for addition and multiplication — namely, ...