Eight years later, have the Common Core State Standards led to a revolution in how reading and writing are taught? Not exactly. Teachers have shifted practices dramatically on vocabulary and assigning ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. DeSantis announced Thursday that he intends to end Common Core in the state, but Florida has done this all before. In 2013, then Gov. Rick Scott ordered the state to withdraw from ...

You remember Common Core. First it was going to save the educational universe (and help lift a couple of political careers). Then it was going to turn all our children into gay communists. Then, most ...

If the old adage is true—that a society can be judged by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens—then putting the common standards into practice carries the specter of a judgment about educational ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with historian Drew Gilpin Faust about her story in The Atlantic, "Gen Z Never Learned to Read Cursive." Sponsor Message : [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This story incorrectly ...