Concerned about what they see as a dearth of instructional materials aligned with the Common Core State Standards in math, several educators in Utah, with support from the state office of education, ...

In early September, math teachers from across Kent County, Md., gathered for their first professional learning community meetings of the school year. Kris Hemstetter, a math and English/language arts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help ...

If you have a kid in school, you’ve probably noticed that their math homework looks different than yours did an undisclosed number of years ago. And you may have moaned about it—“What’s with all the ...

“A royal mess.” This is how California middle-school math teacher Barry Garelick describes math education today, especially under the Common Core national standards. In his book, Math Education in the ...

Parenting is hard work in a million different ways, but if you would have told a pre-child me that one of those struggles would include third grade math, I'm pretty sure I would have laughed in your ...

The Common Core math standards have poured gasoline on the math “reform” fire that has raged for the past 20-plus years. This is particularly true since the national dialogue about Common Core has ...

Re: “Why parents struggle with Common Core math: “The diagrams are absolutely insane.”” (Mercurynews.com, June 17): As a high school teacher for 14 years, I strongly support California’s high academic ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. If it is true that the Common Core state standards are a federal takeover, then how is it Missouri can simply vote them out? The ...

Why did the approach to mathematics change with Common Core, rather than providing more structure to how it was previously taught? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, ...

Nick Storz is a government student at Patrick Henry College and an intern with the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. John Schoof is a research associate at the Center for ...