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 ...

On Tuesday night, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker proposed removing state funding for tests tied to Common Core State Standards, the so-called “Smarter Balanced” test public school students are slated to ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. MIAMI, FL — When Gov. Rick Scott announced last week he was pulling Florida out of a multi-state consortium working to create ...

As Alabama legislators tabled a bill to withdraw from Common Core national standards, its department of education is adopting related tests and attempting to convince legislators and voters to keep ...

After being criticized for an alleged lack of transparency, the state Education Department plans to release a larger portion of this year’s Common Core-based exams in July. About 25 percent of last ...

While about 320,000 public school students will take Common Core tests starting Monday, they will also face a second round of the exams May 4-8, state officials said Wednesday. The second phase, like ...

“We will not accept this one-size-fits-all approach to our children’s education,” he told reporters. White wants the standards reviewed and tweaked but largely kept intact. “I can’t emphasize that ...

DENVER — New standardized tests aligned with Common Core standards have students hunched over computers across Colorado this month — unless their parents pulled them out of the examinations because of ...

Without access to the questions, it is nearly impossible to use the tests to help improve student learning,” the letter states.In short, the PARCC tests seem designed to fail students. Ms. Fougner ...