Compiled by a team of teacher researchers, a digital curriculum platform is adding more than 750 free, Common Core-aligned lesson plans in math and English language arts for grades 2 to 12. The lesson ...

As states start phasing in Common Core standards in public school classrooms, no Common Core textbooks have been written yet, and new assessments are still being developed. So, teachers are creating ...

Miguel Figueroa (R) and Diego Salazar (L) reading in Cheri Kuykendall's fourth-grade class during their independent reading time. Students had just done a close reading of a text; now they are able to ...

As we're detailing this week, teachers and school leaders have a lot of work to do to adopt curricula aligned with the new Common Core State Standards. In the Internet era, the best resources should ...

The National Education Association and the for-profit firm BetterLesson today unveiled a jointly designed, $7 million free platform with more than 3,000 lessons aligned to the Common Core State ...

Type “geometry lessons for high school” into Google and you’ll get 4 million results. For any teacher, that’s a daunting and basically useless collection. Hours can be wasted looking for the right ...

Jolene Walter learned about the shortcomings of Common Core the hard way. Walter, a graduate student at the University of Rochester Warner School of Education, had to try to implement these ...

Linnea Wolters was prepared to hate the Common Core State Standards. She taught fifth grade at a low-income school in Reno, Nev., where, she says, there was always some new plan to improve things. And ...

Normally, Sherry Geesaman wouldn’t be nervous. Normally, she’d flip open a plan book or a textbook and start riffing. That is, after all, what veteran educators do. And Geesaman’s been teaching for 20 ...