The new draft plan encourages schools to shift away from traditional methods for teaching math, such as memorization, drills, ...

“For some, common core is creating common confusion,” said education correspondent Rehema Ellis on a recent NBC News segment. The crux of the news piece was that parents are struggling to help their ...

Student work posted in an elementary school before the pandemic shows the “partial product” method of solving a multiplication problem, one of many methods students have learned with Common Core.

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Illustrative Mathematics was established in 2011 at the University of Arizona as a means to assist schools in adopting the ...

After years of declining student scores, the state’s plan centers on evidence-based teaching strategies akin to what other ...

The designers for Monte Vista Elementary School’s proposed outdoor classroom had some key questions to answer: What materials could they use while staying under the district’s $10,000 budget? How much ...

Many parents relish reliving moments from our childhoods through our children, and doing homework with them is its own kind of madeleine. For Steve Levitt of “Freakonomics” fame — who is, in his own ...