Part 1 in a four-part series on reading in the Common Core era. The Common Core State Standards are changing what many kids read in school. They're standards, sure — not curriculum. Teachers and ...

Part 2 in a four-part series on reading in the Common Core era. Linnea Wolters was prepared to hate the Common Core State Standards. She taught fifth grade at a low-income school in Reno, Nev., where, ...

Thirty-six percent of third-graders at Lima schools earned proficient reading scores on their state English language arts ...

The Elementary School Journal, Vol. 107, No. 1 (September 2006), pp. 67-91 (25 pages) Abstract Using multiple analytic methods, we examined the fit between 2 concurrent policy mandates in Florida—the ...

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right-tilted think tank and longtime staunch supporter of the Common Core, just released a survey of ELA teachers and some attendant conclusions about how the Common ...

The newest batch of K-12 textbook reviews from nonprofit EdReports.org has some bad news for major publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In the inaugural round of ratings two years ago, which included ...