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 ...

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 ...

Education leaders are beginning to publicly worry that two coalitions attempting to determine mandatory tests for some 40 million U.S. students by 2014 can’t pull their massive enterprise together by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Skeptics will point out that if Common Core standards prescribe what students need to know, and tests developed in response to the standards assess whether they know it, it is not a big leap to ...

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 ...

“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 ...