Education Week

Moving Forward: A National Perspective on States’ Progress in Common Core State Standards Implementation Planning

This new report, produced by the EPE Research Center in partnership with Education First, a national education policy and strategic consulting firm, provides an update on states’ progress toward ...
Education Week

Do States Weaken Their Standards By ‘Un-Adopting’ the Common Core? These Reviewers Think So.

The English/language arts and math standards in most states that “un-adopted” or made changes to the Common Core State Standards are, in the end, “substantially weaker,” according to a new report by ...
Center for American Progress

Empowering Teachers To Successfully Implement Common Core

The Common Core State Standards began in 2009 as a state-led effort to measure the nation’s students against a shared benchmark. At first, the standards received broad acceptance. Education leaders ...
Heartland

Research & Commentary: Common Core is Causing Massachusetts NAEP Scores to Decline at Historic Rate

The adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has led to a “historic” drop in student achievement scores on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test, also known as the ...