It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: And I'm Renee Montagne. This morning, we're going to begin taking a closer look at the Common Core. Those are the learning ...

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 ...

As we're detailing this week, teachers and school leaders have a lot of work to do to adopt curricula aligned with the new Common Core State Standards. In the Internet era, the best resources should ...

Normally, Sherry Geesaman wouldn’t be nervous. Normally, she’d flip open a plan book or a textbook and start riffing. That is, after all, what veteran educators do. And Geesaman’s been teaching for 20 ...

Editor’s note: Proponents of the Common Core State Standards – the most ambitious education reform in decades – say the standards will help close the nation’s achievement gap. Just how is that ...

Stacey Jacobson-Francis works on math homework with her daughter Luci in May 2014 at their home in Berkeley. As schools implement national Common Core standards, math has become more complicated at ...

Every so often, K-12 schooling witnesses the rise of an intuitive, easy-to-like, bipartisan reform push that’s backed by deep-pocketed funders and a lot of recognizable names. While this alignment of ...

It’s been five years since controversy peaked over the Common Core State Standards and their use in Catholic schools. What have we learned? By 2013 the Common Core was being adopted rapidly by ...

LearnZillion, a company that provides teacher-created lessons aligned to the Common Core State Standards, has announced the members of its 2014 teacher “Dream Team.” The 200 educators selected for the ...

Parents in Farmville, North Carolina want to know why their children were given a Common Core vocabulary assignment in an English class that promoted the Prophet Muhammad and the Islamic faith. “It ...