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 ...

Allonda Hawkins said the way her children are expected to do math is “100 percent different” from the way she learned. “There are terms that I’ve never heard before, like arrays. It’s very foreign to ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Back-to-school time is officially upon us, and by now everyone has seen a Common Core math problem that takes something simple ...

Clarissa A. Thompson receives funding from the U.S. Department of Education (Institute of Education Sciences). Marta Mielicki receives funding from the U.S. Department of Education (Institute of ...

A teacher has 21 red pens. If the ratio of red pens to blue pens she owned was 3:1, how many pens did she have total? It’s one of the word problems sixth-graders at Vera C. O’Leary Middle School were ...

I enjoyed reading your recent discussion with Alex Baron, “How Much Autonomy Should Teachers Have Over Instructional Materials? ” In particular, I was struck by your skepticism about whether ...

The State Board of Education voted Wednesday on new academic standards for Florida’s public schools, ending Florida’s rocky 10-year relationship with Common Core. Common Core standards spell out what ...