When the 9/11 Commission reviewed factors that made our country vulnerable to the 2001 terrorist attacks, it found that “the most important failure was one of imagination.” Imagination, defined by one ...

Route 66, America’s most celebrated highway, is something altogether different today. It is no longer “the best” way to get from Chicago to the West Coast. In many places, the historic road is buried ...

Teachers believe the Common Core standards in their states can improve how they teach writing, but they also find plenty of shortcomings with the standards -- and with the associated state writing ...

Across the country, teachers are adapting their instructional practices to the new Common Core standards in math and English language arts. A recent report, called Listening and Learning from Teachers ...

Columbia, SC (WLTX) The South Carolina Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday afternoon to replace the Common Core Standards now being used in math and English, killing Common Core in the ...

Members of the state Board of Regents voted in Albany to replace Common Core learning standards with a new set of standards: "Next Generation Learning Standards." State Education Commissioner ...

EdSource · How one student got her middle school to change its name (rebroadcast) The poll is the longest-running survey of public attitudes toward education, which this year included phone interviews ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. As kids across ...

: [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This story incorrectly states that the U.S. government removed cursive from “Common Core” standards. In fact, the common core standards are set by a group of governors ...

The two words don’t appear anywhere in the more than 150 pages of the state’s new math and reading goals. “Common Core standards in South Dakota are officially gone,” said state Secretary of Education ...