HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - The Common Core issue has been dividing lawmakers in Montgomery all year, and now, some prominent leaders in the Tennessee Valley have weighed in. Late Tuesday night, ...
The Common Core State Standards is a new initiative that outlines literacy and mathematics expectations for K-12 schools across the country. iStock For all of their superficial similarities, the ...
Silver said no one is saying the Common Core program has to be scrapped. “You can’t propose an entirely new curriculum and entirely new set of standards and say, ‘Here it is, teach to it and we’re ...
This is priceless. Former Florida Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, consummate politician and 2016 presidential aspirant, has now bitterly accused opponents of his federal education schemes of possessing ...
Gov. Bill Haslam and the Tennessee legislature are preparing for a fight over what the state's students should read and learn, with critics from across the political landscape teaming up to try to ...
Remember: Bush's educational foundation, the Foundation for Excellence in Education, is tied at the hip to the federally funded testing consortium called PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness ...
We see all this talk on Gov. Bobby Jindal and Sen. David Vitter changing views on Common Core, but what is the truth on Common Core in Louisiana? Does Common Core dumb down education in Louisiana like ...