*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. If it is true that the Common Core state standards are a federal takeover, then how is it Missouri can simply vote them out? The ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has proven its staying ...

A teacher has 21 red pens. If the ratio of red pens to blue pens she owned was 3:1, how many pens did she have total? It’s one of the word problems sixth-graders at Vera C. O’Leary Middle School were ...

I am very concerned that the Common Core math being taught in school is not preparing the students for the situations they will need upon graduation. My college major was a BS in Mathematics and ...

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 ...

To briefly summarize Common Core, the decision to adopt the Common Core standards was left almost exclusively in the hands of the governors and the state boards of education. The public was not made ...