The goals for Salata’s class were made clear to the students on two printouts he taped to his blackboard. A major part of the Common Core, he said, is stating the goals of a lesson to students at the ...

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Common Core State Standards, a grade-by-grade set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children should know in each grade in math and English language arts (ELA), have been said to ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. Although the State Board of Education adopted new Common Core standards in math and ...

Up to now, California schools have placed a greater emphasis on teaching the state’s 1.5 million English learners the parts of a sentence rather than the meaning of a sentence. That focus on syntax ...

Much of the discussion surrounding the Common Core tests in New York state has focused on the tests in grades 3-8. But over the past three years, the state has been offering Common Core exams in three ...

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, ...

The Understanding Language team at Stanford University has just released its first major collection of common core instructional resources in math meant for teachers who work with English-language ...