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Preparing for Change: A National Perspective on Common Core State Standards Implementation Planning

This new report, produced by the EPE Research Center in partnership with Education First, a national education policy and strategic consulting firm, describes states’ progress toward creating plans ...

Exercise and the Common Core State Standards

Note: The following case study is an excerpt from The Learning Habit by Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman, Rebecca Jackson, and Dr. Robert Pressman by arrangement with ...

Missouri education officials replace Common Core standards

JEFFERSON CITY • Missouri became the latest state to adopt a new set of education benchmarks to replace the national Common Core standards, ditching the benchmarks Tuesday following conservative ...

STEMscopes Math for Grades K-8 and Algebra I Receives Top Score for Alignment to Common Core State Standards from Learning List

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--STEMscopes Math for grades K-8 and Algebra I from Accelerate Learning has received the highest score for alignment to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) from Learning ...

What’s the Purpose of Standards in Education? An Explainer

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...

The Case for Whole Books

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. What’s going on? This debate over ...

Missouri Legislature throws Common Core test out the window

Missouri public school children spent untold hours this spring prepping for a new computer-based standardized test. It required written essays, details to back up answers, and raised concerns that ...

Alaska, Texas Reject Common Core Standards

At least two states have rejected the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI) draft standards submitted by state governors and endorsed by the Obama administration. With the White House ...

North Dakota to write standards replacing Common Core

Math and English lessons for North Dakota students will soon be based on a new set of standards written over the next year to replace Common Core, State Superintendent Kirsten Baesler announced ...

Kansas Puts Hope in Common Core Standards

The Kansas State Board of Education (KSBE) voted to make the Sunflower State one of the last states to adopt the national Common Core State Standards Initiative. These standards were designed by a ...

Franklin College math department honored nationally

Even for those who dedicate their lives to math, it can be hard to see beyond the numbers. Lost in the formulas and figures are the real-world applications of the discipline. Franklin College faculty ...

What’s Special about Life? Bulk Orchestration and the Rulial Ensemble in Biology and Beyond

Towards a Theory of Bulk OrchestrationIt’s a key feature of living systems, perhaps even in some ways the key feature: that even right down to a molecular scale, things are orchestrated. Molecules (or at least large ones) don’t just move around randomly, like in a liquid or a gel. Instead, what molecular biology has discovered is that there are endless active mechanisms that in effect orchestrate what even individual molecules in living systems do. But what is the result of all that orchestratio

College provides free Kaplan test prep

Hampden-Sydney College is partnering with global education company Kaplan to provide free access to Kaplan’s best-in-class preparation ...

Majoring in Math Not Always a Classroom Plus

Includes updates and/or revisions. Ask a parent, politician, or school board member to describe the ideal qualifications of a math teacher, and most would probably rank having a college major in that ...

What Math Classes are Required in College?

College can be thrilling, demanding, and unpredictable. The need for mathematics is one item that always surprises pupils. Many others share your question about the math courses needed in college. While some kids enjoy mathematics, others shun it like a Monday morning wake-up call. In any case, most college experiences include mathematics. Let us thus...

What Abigail Spanberger’s Win Means for Virginia Students

Key Points ・Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia’s governor race and pledges to put public education first - from early childhood through college - while opposing what her campaign calls federal cuts to ...

Confused Math GIF by Rooster Teeth

Confused Math GIF by Rooster Teeth

How a Move to Santa Barbara Set One Student on a New Path

After two years at Santa Barbara City College, McCotter transferred to the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2015 ...

How state funding and new approaches are helping Virginia college students get the internships they need to get ahead in their early careers

A state grant program gave financial support to college students completing unpaid and underpaid internships. Student awards, ...

Black Man Laughing GIF by Chelsea Handler

Black Man Laughing GIF by Chelsea Handler