Someday, maybe many years from now, someone will go back and read all the ridiculous articles and watch all the hilarious videos that were made complaining about how dumb Common Core made them feel. I ...

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EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) Fifth-grade math teacher Wei Zhang moves her hands in small circles with her palms up, coaxing her students to think ...

Algebra 1 is a much tougher course under the Common Core State Standards than it was previously in most states, as I wrote in June. Students are being introduced to algebraic concepts earlier in ...

February 26, 2026 - At Antioch High School, peer advocates mentor freshmen, meet with students who've been found with alcohol or drugs, and facilitate conflict resolution. For five years, a San ...

Three school math problems have thousands of people on Facebook and Reddit talking. The reason? Even though the students' answers appear to be totally correct, they were still marked wrong. Here's one ...

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It’s been five years since controversy peaked over the Common Core State Standards and their use in Catholic schools. What have we learned? By 2013 the Common Core was being adopted rapidly by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has proven its staying ...

This story was produced by the Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more about the Common Core. SAN ANTONIO—Karen Demore ...

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 ...