Commentary: Students deserve more than a Common Core blame game

State Education Betty Rosa writes that improving student achievement requires a clear understanding of the challenges and a ...
Staten Island Advance

Common Core is being replaced: 7 things you need to know

Members of the state Board of Regents voted in Albany to replace Common Core learning standards with a new set of standards: "Next Generation Learning Standards." State Education Commissioner ...
American Enterprise Institute

What Social and Emotional Learning Advocates Can Learn from Common Core

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 ...
Education Week

Next Generation Learning Standards to Soon Replace Common Core in N.Y.

On Monday, the New York State Board of Regents approved a replacement for the common-core learning standards after two years of development, and it seems to be mostly popular with educators and ...
The Post-Journal

Coalition Touts Common Core Support

Approximately 4,000 people have officially voiced their support for the Common Core in New York state, according to High Achievement New York. The pro-Common Core Learning Standards coalition released ...
The Atlantic

Common Core Isn't Mining Nearly as Much Student Data as the Private Sector

For a while now, some anti-Big Government privacy activists have argued that the Common Core learning standards are actually just a front for data collection. But when it comes to student data, Big ...
American Enterprise Institute

What Social-emotional Learning Advocates Should Learn from the Common Core

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.