But Common Core has come under fire since, particularly from conservatives. Some argue that the program steers teachers toward literature and textbooks with a liberal slant, while others say 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, said the final plan will include still-unspecified delays to the new English and math testing requirements under the Common Core program. But he suggested ...

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 ...

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 ...

Remember: Bush's educational foundation, the Foundation for Excellence in Education, is tied at the hip to the federally funded testing consortium called PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness ...