Arkansas is one of 43 states that have adopted Common Core standards for schools.Common Core is a set of standards for math and English language arts that, according to the state, is the best for ...

It’s vacation time for the nation’s school kids and, while they play, states are beginning to push back against the latest effort of the federal government to exert total control over the nation’s ...

Few people argue that giving students academically rigorous benchmarks that can be compared from state to state is a bad idea. But there is vocal and vigorous opposition to the Common Core, which has ...

It is difficult to pick up a newspaper or listen to a news broadcast nowadays that fails to mention the Common Core curriculum. Conservative and liberal pundits, alike, complain about it. Let’s ...

As part of The Heartland Institute’s continuing series of book and movie events, specifically designed to showcase freedom, the book, “Drilling through the Core”, edited with an introduction by Peter ...

Gov. Bill Haslam is facing a leadership crisis over the implementation of Common Core State Standards, one of the pillars of the state’s education reform effort. The House of Representatives ...

Video: New Orleans military mom explains why she supports Common Core Amanda Stenson says when the military transferred her family to New Orleans, her children were three grades ahead. Gov. Bobby ...