The questions, taken from a Common Core fourth-grade reading test, came to a Columbia professor in an email from an anonymous teacher, part of a blistering critique of the exam. The professor put the ...

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. Redondo Beach ...

One of the two-state consortia behind new, Common Core-aligned tests has released questions from its spring assessments. They're hard. At least, that was the rep on new tests aligned to the Common ...

Nearly one year after Common Core tests sparked statewide controversy, this year’s version is being rolled out with little fanfare and few arguments. “I think all the hype and stuff like that has kind ...

Tensions are rising between state Superintendent of Education John White and a growing number of local school superintendents over how and when Common Core test results will be released. White has ...