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 ...

Think about the major policy undertakings of the Obama administration over the past six and a half years. It began with a “stimulus” that wasted trillions in the quest of generating jobs, but did ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Note to Republican presidential candidates: Congress passed, with broad bipartisan support, an education law that specifically says the federal government cannot push academic ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo wants an education subcommittee to make recommendations on how to improve the implementation of the Common Core learning standards, which have been subject to increasing scrutiny ...

At a Chicago fundraiser May 29, 2013, President Obama said “I don’t have much patience for people who deny climate change.” At his swearing in ceremony May 21, 2013, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz ...