Common Core standards do not prepare students of math and sciences adequately for college, despite their claim to be “aligned with college and career expectations,” a new study on the standards ...
Brandy Frakes, an elementary school teacher at the Aspire University Charter School in Modesto, is tackling one of the greatest challenges facing educators: building support among bewildered parents ...
In math, students develop an understanding of fractions as numbers. They learn the concepts behind multiplication and division and apply problem-solving skills and strategies for multiplying and ...
Although Common Core State Standards were adopted in Massachusetts in 2010, the topic is still a lightning rod for impassioned critique and opinion. There is even an initiative, “End Common Core MA,” ...
A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. When Veera Sinha was a little girl in India, her father asked his kids to solve math puzzles in their ...
Recently, Nebraska—one of the four states that never adopted the Common Core State Standards—settled on a new set of K-12 math standards. Over the last few years, we’ve seen a few states, including ...