Lynne Munson has served as president and executive director of the non-profit Common Core, Inc. since its founding in 2007. Common Core, Inc. is an advocate for the liberal arts and sciences education ...

Under the Common Core State Standards, parents and middle school students are being asked to “restrain their ambitions and delay algebra until high school,” long-time education reporter Jay Mathews ...

Long a staple of the high school curriculum, the mathematics-course sequence of Algebra 1, geometry, and Algebra 2 is facing a budding challenge as schools transition to the Common Core State ...

With the implementation of the new Common Core standards, parents across the country will notice a few changes in their kids' math homework. To big changes, now, in the classroom. Most states have ...

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Syracuse, NY -- It's early afternoon at Syracuse's Huntington K-8 School, and teacher Colleen Brigati and her third-graders are hard at work. Brigati draws a cylinder on the blackboard. She labels it ...

Every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., Jason Zimba begins a math tutoring session for his two young daughters with the same ritual. Claire, 4, draws on a worksheet while Abigail, 7, pulls addition ...