Route 66, America’s most celebrated highway, is something altogether different today. It is no longer “the best” way to get from Chicago to the West Coast. In many places, the historic road is buried ...

In high schools across Denver, chemistry teachers are working from a new set of lessons. The topic: “Should the United States say yes or no to nuclear power?” On their way to answering that question, ...

This is another story in KPCC's ongoing series, Classroom Core, that takes a close look at how the Common Core teaching standards are playing out in schools in Southern California. Four years into ...

“They have three or four lesson plans they have to develop in connection to Common Core.”Upperclassmen who have had both experiences express more confidence in entering the teaching world.“Senior year ...

The Common Core State Standards are a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English-language arts (ELA). The standards outline “the knowledge and skills all students should master ...

Under Common Core, it takes far too long for a teacher to show a student how to do simple addition, said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. In 2013, the Texas Legislature passed a law prohibiting school ...

Lori Woods teaches at Greenbrook Elementary, a Title 1 K-5 school in South Brunswick, New Jersey. The suburban district in the central part of the state has a diverse student population that includes ...

The Common Core State Standards are dead. Done. Finished. Authorities have told us so. Betsy DeVos delivered a brief eulogy at the American Enterprise Institute earlier this month. “And at the U.S.

The Common Core State Standards are a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English-language arts (ELA). The standards outline “the knowledge and skills all students should master ...