In math, students advance to work with decimals up to the hundreds place. Students add, subtract, and multiply fractions, including fractions with different denominators. They expand their geometry ...

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The common core’s impact on student achievement may have peaked early and already tapered off, according to a new analysis of national test scores by the Brookings Institution’s Brown Center on ...

The Common Core State Standards arose from a simple idea: that creating one set of challenging academic expectations for all students would improve achievement and college readiness. But the idea ...

A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com ...

Part 1 in a four-part series on reading in the Common Core era. The Common Core State Standards are changing what many kids read in school. They're standards, sure — not curriculum. Teachers and ...

The last in our four-part series on reading in the Common Core era. Whatever you think of these shifts, they're meaningless ideas without a classroom and kids to make sense of them. That's today's ...