While debates over the merits of the Common Core State Standards rage on, many states and districts are immersed in the business at hand: buying curricular materials, professional development, ...

Last week, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan gave a speech to the Society of News Editors that Education Week called “The strongest defense yet of Common Core Standards.” In it, he said that the ...

While nearly every state that adopted the Common Core State Standards appears to be sticking with that commitment, political pressure is fragmenting the environment for tests aligned with the common ...

The Wyoming Department of Education has ended its affiliation with the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), a group that provides states with high-stakes achievement tests aligned with ...

This is part 9 in an ongoing series, see the whole collection here. To avoid having to weigh in on debates over the Common Core where my expertise does not lie, from time to time over the past two ...