Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...

That test has now been banned by the Legislature. It’s the latest development surrounding Common Core, the set of learning standards that has led to parents yelling at state education officials at ...

DENVER — New standardized tests aligned with Common Core standards have students hunched over computers across Colorado this month — unless their parents pulled them out of the examinations because of ...

To briefly summarize Common Core, the decision to adopt the Common Core standards was left almost exclusively in the hands of the governors and the state boards of education. The public was not made ...

(AP) Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal took steps Wednesday to block the use of tests tied to the Common Core education standards, a move that puts him at odds with state legislative, education and business ...

Is the Common Core on its way in — or out? Proponents and opponents are so sharply divided that an assessment of the standards’ prospects depends on whom you ask. The national academic standards have ...

This article is the second of three in a series on Common Core public outreach. A coalition of private foundations has spent approximately $2.5 million to promote Common Core, primarily by teaching ...

No Child Left Behind, a federal law, mandated that all states give annual tests in grades 3-12 to ensure that all students were proficient. However, each state chose its own test and its own ...