This article is the second of three in a series on Common Core public outreach. A coalition of private foundations has spent approximately $2.5 million to promote Common Core, primarily by teaching ...

The Center for American Progress is an independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership ...

This article is the third in a three-part series on Common Core public outreach. It’s not just the federal government and private foundations spending millions to promote Common Core as state and ...

Washington, DC – On Friday, January 31, the Center for American Progress and the National Center on Time & Learning will host an event to discuss how high-performing expanded-time schools provide ...

U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, shown here at the Rotary Club of Baton Rouge, praises pro-Common Core politicians and policymakers in a letter sent Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu supports ...

E.D. Hirsch was an educational conservative before educational conservatives were cool. Now a retired professor of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, Hirsch has been arguing for a ...

The Common Core State Standards may be implemented nationwide, but support for the standards has dropped to an all-time low. A new report conducted by Education Next (EdNext), a journal from the ...

UPDATE: Judge Todd Hernandez issued a ruling late Tuesday in favor of Common Core supporters. The written ruling lifts Gov. Bobby Jindal's suspension of the contracts for tests to be administered this ...

State Superintendent John White says a new report out on the state's tuition assistance program, commonly called TOPS, supports his position that Louisiana should implement Common Core education ...

UC President Janet Napolitano and three other leaders in California public and private higher education signed a letter Aug. 29 expressing support for the Common Core State Standards. After state ...

The results of the 2015 Education Next Poll were released Tuesday, with three groups of respondents answering questions about Common Core. One group of respondents was asked simply whether they ...