Concerned about what they see as a dearth of instructional materials aligned with the Common Core State Standards in math, several educators in Utah, with support from the state office of education, ...

An article by Elizabeth Green (CEO of a nonprofit education news organization called Chalkbeat) that recently appeared in the New York Times magazine, attempts to explain why most Americans are bad at ...

Sean Nank is a math expert who is helping teachers to implement the Common Core standards. He’s a professor at the American College of Education, created in 2005 to provide online graduate programs ...

For an updated version of this story, see “Review of Math Programs Comes Under Fire.” The first round of a Consumer Reports-style review for instructional materials paints a dismal picture of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remember the days when working a math problem resulted in a right or wrong answer, and parents had a basic grasp of how to help ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — New teachers, new schedules, new curriculum. As students get back in the classroom, they may find some of the learning materials have changed. After more than a decade, Common ...

EdSource · School screen time is rising. California parents are asking where to draw the line Fifth-grade math teacher Wei Zhang moves her hands in small circles with her palms up, coaxing her ...

As this public school year begins, districts across California are reporting student performance on new exams based on California’s adaptation of the controversial Common Core federal standards.