Florida may still use national Common Core tests even though Gov. Rick Scott signed an executive order on Sept. 23 limiting the state’s involvement with them. Scott raised concerns about Florida’s use ...

Skeptics will point out that if Common Core standards prescribe what students need to know, and tests developed in response to the standards assess whether they know it, it is not a big leap to ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. MIAMI, FL — When Gov. Rick Scott announced last week he was pulling Florida out of a multi-state consortium working to create ...

Dropping plans for Common Core tests would spark huge disruptions in Louisiana public schools, state Superintendent of Education John White said Monday. White told the Senate Finance Committee that he ...

Common Core began as an effort to raise education standards but, Gov. Bobby Jindal contends, has “morphed into a scheme to drive education curriculum from Washington, D.C.” largely through the tests ...

As Alabama legislators tabled a bill to withdraw from Common Core national standards, its department of education is adopting related tests and attempting to convince legislators and voters to keep ...

Missouri public school children spent untold hours this spring prepping for a new computer-based standardized test. It required written essays, details to back up answers, and raised concerns that ...

One in six New York students opted out of federally-mandated math or English Language Arts tests this spring. New data sheds light on which types of students opted out of those tests aligned with the ...

The pyrotechnics around the Common Core has obscured some of the more prosaic, but critical, questions it poses for K-12 reform. Field testing for the Common Core-aligned PARCC and Smarter Balanced ...

Here’s a fun mental exercise: The LSATs, the notoriously grueling law school entrance exams, take only about four hours to complete. Now imagine sitting down for an exam twice as long at half the age.

Wednesday was day two of the controversial Common Core testing in schools and thousands of Long Island students are opting out. According to Long Island Opt-Out Facebook page, more than 17,000 ...

BILLINGS, Mont. - Computer glitches have stalled on-line tests tied to Common Core across Montana. Testing started March 30 after an eight-day delay because of the problems, then the system crashed ...