This is a sample 6th grade performance task for the common-core math assessment being developed by Smarter Balanced testing consortium. This is a sample 6th grade performance task for the common-core ...

An article by Elizabeth Green (CEO of a nonprofit education news organization called Chalkbeat) that recently appeared in the New York Times magazine, attempts to explain why most Americans are bad at ...

After a delay of nearly a week, the Florida Department of Education has released examples that it says backs up its rejection of dozens of math textbooks because they contained questions and exercises ...

EdSource · When teens counsel teens: Why peer support programs are growing Fifth-grade math teacher Wei Zhang moves her hands in small circles with her palms up, coaxing her students to think about ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. When Veera Sinha was a little girl in India, her father asked his kids to solve math puzzles in their ...

A bill in the Alabama Legislature to repeal Common Core seems to have stalled in the House after passing quickly through the Senate last week. It’s doesn’t appear to be dead, but it’s not going ...

Long a staple of the high school curriculum, the mathematics-course sequence of Algebra 1, geometry, and Algebra 2 is facing a budding challenge as schools transition to the Common Core State ...