Why it matters: ELA in fifth grade builds essential reading, writing, and communication skills that form the foundation for future academic growth. What’s new: Teachers are incorporating thematic ...

Common Core State Standards are driving the curriculum and changing the expectations for what teachers and children are expected to do during writing instruction in school. Here are Common Core’s 10 ...

Teachers use different strategies to help students learn. With the inevitable arrival of the Common Core State Standards, however, the big unknown is what will happen when the assessments are released ...

Our celebrity panel's results for the Common Core sample quiz question No. 6. Common Core puts a new emphasis on nonfiction -- as you can see from Monday's three-point question, which might have made ...

Common Core Standards—adopted by 45 states—is supposed to bring back writing in schools. Ironically, a writing revolution in schools happened 37 years ago when an eloquent professor named Donald ...