Common Core

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state education officials are proposing changes to the Common Core learning standards used to guide lessons at every grade…

Is this the end of the Common Core? There are indications from both the federal and state levels that the controversial set of learning standards has lost…

A task force by Governor Cuomo is reversing a number of policies in the Common Core standards, including parts of a measure on teacher evaluations pushed…

ALBANY (AP) Time is running out to take part in New York state's public opinion survey on the Common Core learning standards.The online survey closes…

Governor Andrew Cuomo has come out more emphatically about his concerns regarding the Common Core standards.With word that some parents are already…

Are the Common Core standards threatening to push great fiction out of the classroom? A local English teacher says, in a word: Yes. We'll expand on a…

New York state's testing opt-out numbers swelled to 20 percent this year. What does that mean going forward? We'll talk to East Rochester Superintendent…

State English and math tests in grades 3-8 are coming in the next several weeks, and school districts across the state have debated how to handle them.…

As promised last week, we continue the discussion over education policy and whether parents should opt their children out of standardized testing. Some…

This hour is part of Education Friday. On Wednesday, New York Education officials released half of the math and English test questions taken by students…