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 ...

This is another story in KPCC's ongoing series, Classroom Core, that takes a close look at how the Common Core teaching standards are playing out in schools in Southern California. Amid rows of chairs ...

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 ...