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 ...

Two third- and fourth-grade English language arts and social studies teachers at Zachary Elementary — Jess McKowen Patti and Molly Bryan Talbot — were invited by William and Mary College to co-present ...

Critics of the Common Core reading and math standards adopted by forty-odd states since 2010 have taken to calling them “Obamacore,” in a play on health care reform. The “Obamacore” moniker reflects ...

Here's the thing: The Common Core standards don't specify the use of curricula, textbooks, workbooks or lesson plans — let alone particular math problems. (See #6, below). But in order to teach to the ...

Lisette Partelow writes that there are many amazing Common Core-aligned lessons that can be used to teach the standards in fun, engaging ways. Common Core doomsayers often claim that rich, engaging, ...

Common Core may no longer be law in Oklahoma, but it has not disappeared from the classrooms. Heather Sparks, Oklahoma’s 2009 Teacher of the Year, teaches eighth-grade math. In her classroom at Taft ...

Chaz Molder serves as the mayor of Columbia, Tennessee, and his three children attend Maury County Public Schools. I agreed with my now colleague Maury County Mayor Sheila Butt when, as a state ...

This is part 9 in an ongoing series, see the whole collection here. To avoid having to weigh in on debates over the Common Core where my expertise does not lie, from time to time over the past two ...

The University of the Pacific and Teachers College of San Joaquin will offer specialized math training to a select number of teachers. The effort is designed to get teachers better equipped to teach ...