South Dakota's proposed math standards are sparking debate, with critics saying they're too simple and lack guidance.

Conservative critics of New Hampshire’s academic standards have an unlikely source of inspiration: Massachusetts.

Nick Storz is a government student at Patrick Henry College and an intern with the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. John Schoof is a research associate at the Center for ...

To the editor: Bob Foley ("Keep federal government out of local schools," Sept. 28) has been misinformed about and thus misunderstands the nature and origin of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) ...

Senate Bill 514 was corrected from SB 518 below. Officials from the Cape Girardeau School District and the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education would prefer to see Common Core ...

Forty-eight states have joined a national effort to adopt common academic standards in mathematics and language arts. Lending momentum to that work, which is being led by the National Governors ...

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 ...

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...