The questions, taken from a Common Core fourth-grade reading test, came to a Columbia professor in an email from an anonymous teacher, part of a blistering critique of the exam. The professor put the ...

Nearly one year after Common Core tests sparked statewide controversy, this year’s version is being rolled out with little fanfare and few arguments. “I think all the hype and stuff like that has kind ...

While about 320,000 public school students will take Common Core tests starting Monday, they will also face a second round of the exams May 4-8, state officials said Wednesday. The second phase, like ...

One of the two-state consortia behind new, Common Core-aligned tests has released questions from its spring assessments. They're hard. At least, that was the rep on new tests aligned to the Common ...