Editor’s note: This is a follow-up article to one that appeared earlier on Pajamas Media. What do educators mean when they praise Common Core, the national education standards for math and English ...
ATLANTA — Georgia's current education standards are coming to an end, as a new direction of learning is coming for grades K through 12. On Thursday, the state's board of education approved State ...
Testing costs have removed Georgia from the list of states that will administer PARCC, one of the two national Common Core tests, the state Department of Education announced. The Partnership for ...
ATLANTA — The state Board of Education adopted a new set of “Georgia-grown” standards for English/language arts instruction in public schools Thursday, the last step in abandoning the federal ...
We are likely to see another Common Core debate when the Georgia Legislature meets in January. Here's a piece in favor of the standards from Michael J. Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham ...
ATLANTA — The House Education Committee on Wednesday heard from 68 people who sounded off about a bill that would provide a pathway to pull Georgia out of the controversial Common Core state standards ...