Education Week

The Core Standards for Writing: Another Failure of Imagination?

When the 9/11 Commission reviewed factors that made our country vulnerable to the 2001 terrorist attacks, it found that “the most important failure was one of imagination.” Imagination, defined by one ...
Lawrence Journal-World

Common Core standards will soon be a thing of the past in Kansas

Topeka? The Common Core educational standards for reading and math, long a source of intense political controversy, will soon go by the wayside in Kansas. But they aren’t going away because of ...
Post Independent Citizen Telegram

Across the Street: The latest on Common Core standards in Colorado

Remember “Common Core”? That term first appeared in 2010. It referred, at that time, to the controversial Math and English Language Arts Standards that Colorado, along with 41 other states, adopted ...
LAist

What students lost since cursive writing was cut from the Common Core standards

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Orlando Sentinel

Common Core academic standards to go — but what’s next?

Florida is going to — yet again — get the latest flavor in how and what to teach public school children. Bye-bye, Common Core academic standards. Reviled by right-wing Republicans, that version of ...
WFAE

What students lost since cursive writing was cut from the Common Core standards

: [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This story incorrectly states that the U.S. government removed cursive from “Common Core” standards. In fact, the common core standards are set by a group of governors ...