It’s been a rough year for the Common Core standards. As parents, teachers, officials, and politicians learn more about the standards, more and more states are considering ways to get out of Common ...

Inside one of Arkansas’ most critical care units, teams at UAMS are caring for some of the state’s smallest and most vulnerable patients while also working to i Tri-County Drug Task Force arrest leads ...

The learning standards were new. The textbooks were not. So curriculum director Tammy Baumann and her team took the books apart, literally. Then they rearranged lessons, filled in holes with outside ...

Paul Halley recently wrote in a letter to the editor that New Jersey’s teacher shortage could be resolved if the state did away with Core Curriculum Standards. (The federal program, which started in ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. From Kristen Stephens, associate professor in Duke University’s Program in Education: ...

Many teachers thought Bennett “arrogant and heavy-handed,” said Indianapolis mother Heather Crossin, whose children attend public and parochial schools. Crossin has traveled the state to argue against ...