As we're detailing this week, teachers and school leaders have a lot of work to do to adopt curricula aligned with the new Common Core State Standards. In the Internet era, the best resources should ...

In math, students work with whole numbers and place value. They group numbers into 10s and 1s, and learn to add and subtract up through 20. They use charts, tables and diagrams to solve problems. In ...

As states start phasing in Common Core standards in public school classrooms, no Common Core textbooks have been written yet, and new assessments are still being developed. So, teachers are creating ...

What is the Common Core? It is a series of grade-by-grade standards for English/language arts and math — what students should know at high school graduation, at the end of 11th grade, at the end of ...

The 53 teachers gathered around tables here have been called to a new kind of jury duty. But they won’t be deciding whether a fellow citizen is guilty of a crime: Their charge is to pass judgment on ...

School is in session at Elite Scholars Academy and there's something new this year other than notebooks, pencils and clothes -- the academic standards. The year-round Clayton County charter school is ...