As states start phasing in Common Core standards in public school classrooms, no Common Core textbooks have been written yet, and new assessments are still being developed. So, teachers are creating ...

Teachers looking for ways to weave technology into common-core themed lesson plans have a new resource in PowerUp WHAT WORKS, a federally-funded online collaboration between three education research ...

Compiled by a team of teacher researchers, a digital curriculum platform is adding more than 750 free, Common Core-aligned lesson plans in math and English language arts for grades 2 to 12. The lesson ...

What is the Common Core? It is a series of grade-by-grade standards for English/language arts and math — what students should know at high school graduation, at the end of 11th grade, at the end of ...

Type “geometry lessons for high school” into Google and you’ll get 4 million results. For any teacher, that’s a daunting and basically useless collection. Hours can be wasted looking for the right ...

Jolene Walter learned about the shortcomings of Common Core the hard way. Walter, a graduate student at the University of Rochester Warner School of Education, had to try to implement these ...

Many people don't realize it's a set of standards, not a curriculum. NPR's Eric Westervelt talks with education reporter Cory Turner about other misconceptions about the Common Core standards. I'm ...