The law forbids Common Core standards specifically, but at several points makes it clear that nobody in the federal government is to use any sort of directive or leverage to "mandate, direct ...

People think that the world is basically safe and that problems get addressed, so if something is common, they figure, how bad can it really be? “People believed dire problems — ranging from ...

Jan 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will call for a "revolution of common sense" during his inaugural address, the Wall Street Journal said on Monday citing excerpts of his ...

Forty-one states, including California, have adopted the Common Core State Standards in math and English language arts. The standards describe the knowledge and skills that students should master by ...

Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. The Common Core lists skills students need to master at each grade level without specifying any particular knowledge they need to acquire.