Normally, Sherry Geesaman wouldn’t be nervous. Normally, she’d flip open a plan book or a textbook and start riffing. That is, after all, what veteran educators do. And Geesaman’s been teaching for 20 ...

It’s been five years since controversy peaked over the Common Core State Standards and their use in Catholic schools. What have we learned? By 2013 the Common Core was being adopted rapidly by ...

More than six years after states began adopting the Common Core State Standards in English/language arts and math, most teachers say they are now familiar with the standards, and a growing number feel ...

As student Jacquelyn Brooks shears a sheep on her charter campus’s farm, she’s getting a hands-on lesson in agriculture that is part of the high school’s focus on careers in agribusiness. “We have ...

EdSource · Sexual abuse claims threaten school district budgets, even when not accused During the five years since California adopted the Common Core State Standards for mathematics and English ...

The Common Core State Standards are changing reading instruction in many schools. And that means new challenges for lots of students, even... Common Core Reading: The High Achievers Part 2 in a ...

Bills mandating the “Science of Reading” have been passing left and right across the nation. While some, like the Pennsylvania bill that passed 201-0, provide gentle nudging and support, others, like ...

Stacey Jacobson-Francis works on math homework with her daughter Luci in May 2014 at their home in Berkeley. As schools implement national Common Core standards, math has become more complicated at ...

Advocates of social and emotional learning (SEL) can learn much from the travails that bedeviled Common Core. A close look at Common Core offers a number of telling parallels that SEL proponents would ...

The widespread enthusiasm for social and emotional learning (SEL) is easy to appreciate. After all, it seems painfully obvious that children learn better when they feel valued, supported, and safe.