It always seems appropriate that Halloween comes just days before an election. Politicians are masters at dressing themselves up in ways that obscure reality, in particular their positions on tough ...

Is the Common Core on its way in — or out? Proponents and opponents are so sharply divided that an assessment of the standards’ prospects depends on whom you ask. The national academic standards have ...

Fighting national education standards has given the Tea Party a new battlefront, as the Washington Post and others have noted. But the Post‘s recent front-page story ignored what several of the people ...

Viewed from Washington, which often is the last to learn about important developments, opposition to the Common Core State Standards Initiative still seems as small as the biblical cloud that ariseth ...

When we talk about Common Core — and we certainly talk about it a lot these days — sometimes I wonder whether we’re talking about education at all. Gov. Bobby Jindal’s gradual but ultimately total ...

Last week, Jason Zimba (architect of the Common Core math standards) took to the Fordham Institute’s Flypaper blog to confront some misinformation regarding the Common Core. As my colleague Rick Hess ...

State Superintendent Tony Evers strongly defended Wisconsin’s use of the controversial Common Core academic standards in his annual state of education address Thursday. He also said it’s time for ...

Viewed from Washington, which often is the last to learn about important developments, opposition to the Common Core State Standards Initiative still seems as small as the biblical cloud that ariseth ...

WASHINGTON -- Viewed from Washington, which often is the last to learn about important developments, opposition to the Common Core State Standards Initiative still seems as small as the biblical cloud ...