An in-depth discussion of Common Core standards, how to implement them in the classroom and how to evaluate student performance. Divided up by grade level and subject.

Common Core Standards math pushes Algebra I from eighth grade to high school, contradicting a discipline-wide consensus.

Common Core math is getting the works from critics: It's too demanding for most kids; holds back the speedy kids; not the same as what parents already know; makes kids cry. It even promotes "fuzzy ...

–Grade 4 word problem: Cindy says she found a shortcut for doing multiplication problems. When she multiplies 3 Ö 24, she says, “3 Ö 4 is 12 ones, or 1 ten and 2 ones.

That hasn’t happened. The Republicans dismiss the Common Core State Standards, the hot issue of the moment, in two words or fewer. The standards are “a disaster,” Donald Trump said.

1. What is common core? The Common Core State Standards set out what students from kindergarten through 12th grade should know in English and math.

Common Core, a national set of educational standards adopted in 2010, established reading and math benchmarks that children must reach from kindergarten through 12th grade.

The appendix of the common-core math standards suggests a three-years-in-two option, in which students take the content of 7th grade math, 8th grade math, and Algebra 1 in the last two years of ...

Common Core standards — which lay out what students should know and be able to do by each grade — have captured widespread public attention only in the last 18 months or so.