Next year marks the 10-year anniversary of the Common Core State Standards; the Next Generation Science Standards have been around nearly as long. The majority of states have officially adopted one or ...

Julie Smith is vice president of CDW•G Higher Education Sales. The clock is ticking on the official implementation of the Common Core State Standards by the 44 states (along with the District of ...

Washington, D.C. – The transition to the Common Core State Standards offers an important opportunity to replace America’s flawed and misaligned assessment system with better and fairer tests, ...

Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards, promising full implementation by the 2014-15 school year. While most of the discussion about the Common ...

Corrected: The Commentary incorrectly stated that the New York legislature had approved a bill to delay the use of new common-core assessments for teacher and principal evaluations. The bill has only ...

The debate over the Common Core State Standards Initiative has rocketed to the forefront of education policy discussions around the country. More than 3,000 stories were written about the common core ...

OpenEd's assessment creation tool also allows teachers to associate resources to individual questions. Should a student miss a question on an assessment, OpenEd automatically recommends resources such ...

Washington D.C. – The Common Core State Standards initiative presents challenges to teacher evaluation systems across the country, many of which are in the early stages of development and ...

BISMARCK – After lengthy and passionate debate, House lawmakers Wednesday narrowly defeated a bill that would have forced North Dakota to withdraw from the consortium that develops assessments for the ...

The backlash against teaching-to-the-test and trying to ace one all-important annual school assessment in recent years has led to some good results. In California, they include general acceptance of ...