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 ...

ATLANTA — Georgia's current education standards are coming to an end, as a new direction of learning is coming for grades K through 12. On Thursday, the state's board of education approved State ...

The Common Core math standards were largely written by a physics professor working part time in his garage. Now they're in use by tens of millions... Every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., Jason Zimba ...

Under the common core, students will focus more on nonfiction texts and be exposed to more rigorous math lessons early on. This year marks the second phase of the county’s transition to the common ...