One of the three lead writers of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a national initiative with roots in No Child Left Behind and other federal government education programs, recently told a ...

CONCORD — The battle lines are being drawn over the state Board of Education decision to implement the controversial Common Core standards statewide. Conservative groups opposing the standards and the ...

"Why aren't you using all the resources?" That was the first question a district coach asked me in my rookie teaching year. She wanted me to use the nearly 60 teacher books that went along with our ...

At a Chicago fundraiser May 29, 2013, President Obama said “I don’t have much patience for people who deny climate change.” At his swearing in ceremony May 21, 2013, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz ...

With another school year underway and arguments about Common Core still raging on, AEI scholars have been weighing in on the issue. Just on Tuesday, AEI Resident Scholar Rick Hess participated in an ...

PARCC administrators manual. The Louisiana Department of Education released new school-by. -school data on the test results on Thursday, Oct. 22. (Photo by Ty Wright, Associated Press.) (Ty Wright, ...