Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. MIAMI, FL — When Gov. Rick Scott announced last week he was pulling Florida out of a multi-state consortium working to create ...
That test has now been banned by the Legislature. It’s the latest development surrounding Common Core, the set of learning standards that has led to parents yelling at state education officials at ...
To briefly summarize Common Core, the decision to adopt the Common Core standards was left almost exclusively in the hands of the governors and the state boards of education. The public was not made ...
Is the Common Core on its way in — or out? Proponents and opponents are so sharply divided that an assessment of the standards’ prospects depends on whom you ask. The national academic standards have ...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Opponents of Common Core have another tool to chip away at the embattled national education standards: a recent Missouri court ruling said the state's membership in a group that ...
Flaws in many students’ test booklets during the English language arts exam last week spurred complaints from frustrated school officials, who say the errors further undermine confidence in the Common ...
No Child Left Behind, a federal law, mandated that all states give annual tests in grades 3-12 to ensure that all students were proficient. However, each state chose its own test and its own ...
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 ...