Evan, an Alberta Rider second grader, reads from a new Common Core aligned reading book that contains more instructional texts than he would have read in first grade. ((Doug Beghtel/The Oregonian)) ...
Burris is the award-winning principal of South Side High School in New York who most recently wrote about a ridiculous Common Core first-grade math test for students, which you can read here. Burris ...
Education Week: Common-Core Reading Materials Get Mixed Results in First Major Review
Common-core math aims to have students do less memorizing—but it’s being misinterpreted to have students do more, argues Kathy Liu Sun, an assistant professor of math education at Santa Clara ...
After analyzing dozens of K-12 math textbooks —and determining that most of the major publishers were selling subpar common-core products—the curriculum review group EdReports.org has now moved on to ...
The common core’s impact on student achievement may have peaked early and already tapered off, according to a new analysis of national test scores by the Brookings Institution’s Brown Center on ...
Common Core (CC) K–12 math and English standards are lingering, despite concerted efforts by concerned parents and taxpayers to remove them. It is like a house with an underwater mortgage: The United ...
As you surely know by now, the Common Core State Standards in language arts and math were designed to get students to engage in problem solving, communicate effectively, and think more critically. As ...
The Washington Post: Why young kids are struggling with Common Core math