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 ...

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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, ...

A new free solution directly addresses the Common Core implementation challenges looming ahead for K-12 schools and districts around the country. Edulastic is a web-based formative assessment platform ...

CORE COSTS: As states get closer to rolling out CC exams for the 2014-15 school year, testing costs are now added to the list of concerns around this cosmic shift in the education landscape. PARCC, ...

Performance Matters has partnered with Key Data Systems (KDS) to provide new Common Core State Standard- (CCSS) aligned assessment items through its Unify platform. As part of the new partnership, ...

Aligned to the Common Core State Standards, the forthcoming tests from two nonprofit state assessment consortia—the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and the Partnership for Assessment of ...

The Common Core argument in Louisiana is highly charged and political in nature, but in a nutshell, the state’s commitment to adopting the new standards has been challenged on several fronts. For ...

Lindsey Burke is the director of the Center for Education Policy and the Mark A. Kolokotrones Fellow in Education at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research. Florida Governor Rick Scott (R), citing ...