Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. The Common Core lists skills students need to master at each grade level without specifying any particular knowledge they need to acquire.

Eighty-seven percent of K-12 students in the U.S. live in states that have adopted the Common Core State Standards. Though this widespread approval is no small feat in a country that has long resisted ...

But all have been subjected to the same "compulsory" logic, in a kind of obsession with management, comparison and evaluation, an obsession that now extends even beyond borders with PISA and other ...

Prepare students for the global knowledge economy, and meet and exceed the Common Core State Standards along the way. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are designed to prepare students for the ...

Forty-one states, including California, have adopted the Common Core State Standards in math and English language arts. The standards describe the knowledge and skills that students should master by ...

The Common Core method has many parents concerned. Complaints range from "it's too focused on understanding the steps instead of getting the right answer" to "it's too complicated, I can't even ...

This blog was co-authored by Marcia Gralha, MA. If you've ever thought about starting therapy, you might have felt overwhelmed by the number of approaches. Should you go with a cognitive ...

If you're embarking on an entire year of education at home, you'll want to find the best home-school curriculum to make sure your children hit educational benchmarks and common core standards ...

We have aligned our content to match the Common Core Standards as the state requires. In our math program, we teach Algebra I and Algebra II the first year, using the Prentice-Hall High School Math ...

Those days predated the Common Core math standards, which arrived in 2010 and put forward a central idea: Students should know why they arrived at an answer, and that is just as important as getti ...