The Springfield News-Sun has written extensively about Common Core standards since they were first introduced in 2010. Springfield City School District Superintendent David Estrop will testify before ...

A great debate in education is swirling around whether or not students face too many standardized tests from local and state mandates. Several organized efforts have cropped up in recent years aiming ...

Although frustrated by a three-vote defeat of a bill to reconsider Common Core national education standards or related tests in 2013, former Kansas Board of Education member Walt Chappell is resolute: ...

Jack Markell, the governor of Delaware, co-chaired the Common Core Standards Initiative. Over the past three years, 45 states have adopted the Common Core State Standards. These objectives were ...

All politics is local. So Republican politicians with national ambitions better pay attention to what grassroots parents are saying and doing about the federal education racket known as Common Core.