Route 66, America’s most celebrated highway, is something altogether different today. It is no longer “the best” way to get from Chicago to the West Coast. In many places, the historic road is buried ...

Eight years later, have the Common Core State Standards led to a revolution in how reading and writing are taught? Not exactly. Teachers have shifted practices dramatically on vocabulary and assigning ...

Under the new Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts, students are learning to dissect, analyze, and comprehend the type of complex reading they will encounter in college and the ...

Teachers believe the Common Core standards in their states can improve how they teach writing, but they also find plenty of shortcomings with the standards -- and with the associated state writing ...

Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is a polarizing one in the K-12 education world. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that they don’t ...

After a delay of nearly a week, the Florida Department of Education has released examples that it says backs up its rejection of dozens of math textbooks because they contained questions and exercises ...

One of the few things that unites Americans across the political spectrum in this age of partisan polarization is disdain for modern math instruction. From the far left to the far right, you can find ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with historian Drew Gilpin Faust about her story in The Atlantic, "Gen Z Never Learned to Read Cursive." Sponsor Message : [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This story incorrectly ...

A new report that surveys curriculum nationally and reaches thousands of K-12 and college instructors as well as workplace supervisors and employees has some bad news about the Common Core State ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Teachers believe the Common Core standards in their states can improve how they teach writing, but they also find plenty of shortcomings with the standards - and with the ...