A member of the Common Core review committee quit her post Monday and said the process is geared to keeping the academic standards intact. Margo Guilott, a retired educator who lives in Slidell, ...
PULASKI, Tenn. (AP) - Republican Gov. Bill Haslam insists that his decision this week to hold a public review of Common Core doesn't signal a retreat from the education standards in view of heavy ...
As in many states, Louisiana’s Common Core review is the result of years of pressure from parents and politicians. Last year, lawmakers — in an effort to neutralize the issue in the months leading up ...
Last week, the state Education Department quietly posted school-by-school breakdowns of student scores on the PARCC test, used in 2014-15, that was aligned with Common Core.
The seemingly endless legislative fight over Common Core ended quietly Tuesday. The Louisiana House, without debate, approved the last of three bills that lawmakers hope will help quiet the ...
Mississippi is in a precarious position regarding the Common Core national academic standards. Amid a large grassroots movement against the K–12 math and English standards, legislators opted to review ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (April 14, 2015) –Lieutenant Governor Tim Griffin announced on Tuesday the details of the nine listening tour stops and five Little Rock hearings for the Governor's Council on Common ...
When grassroots parents discovered big-education elitists had kept them in the dark about the Common Core (CC) experiment being conducted on their children, they helped to shine a bright light on the ...
It's crucial that Louisiana keep to its current path, some business leaders say. The Jefferson Chamber of Commerce, the Jefferson Business Council, the Council for a Better Louisiana, the Greater New ...
In a soon-to-be-released survey, 47.8 percent of respondents said conducting a review of the Common Core assessments to ensure they are age and grade appropriate is the most important improvement that ...