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 ...

Advocate staff photo by BRAD BOWIE -- Judith Cain, an eighth grade math teacher at Paul Breaux, answers a question during a summer training session for math teachers from around Lafayette parish at ...

It’s been a rough year for the Common Core standards. As parents, teachers, officials, and politicians learn more about the standards, more and more states are considering ways to get out of Common ...

North Carolina has invested tens of millions of dollars to implement the Common Core academic standards that could eventually be abandoned in public schools statewide. State lawmakers on Wednesday ...

Teachers are in full learning mode again Thursday, five days before school starts. Butte school district educators who teach grades kindergarten through 12th grade are attending the second day of a ...

The Charleston County School District approved a $383,161,659 budget June 24. The budget included a number of significant district priorities and will support many initiatives which will enhance ...

Betty Jones, of Keystone Elementary, studies training material to bring back to her school, Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in Memphis, Tenn. Teachers participated in a state wide Common Core training program ...