Forty-eight states have joined a national effort to adopt common academic standards in mathematics and language arts. Lending momentum to that work, which is being led by the National Governors ...

Teachers and school leaders can work together to ensure that report cards function as trustworthy indicators of what students ...

Will the recently released draft of K-12 standards from the Common Core State Standards Initiative provide a degree of coherence in academic expectations for students, teachers, and education systems ...

Healthcare institutions are urged to adopt common industry standards to ensure interoperability of healthcare information infrastructures, both legacy and emerging. By adopting common standards such ...

BISMARCK -- Common Core math and English language-arts state standards have been drawing some questions, concerns and criticism. I appreciate the chance to clear up some confusion. North Dakota always ...

Nick Storz is a government student at Patrick Henry College and an intern with the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. John Schoof is a research associate at the Center for ...

Like many families, we try to escape the summer heat by going north. This year we spent a week in New Brunswick, Canada, at Shediac Beach, the self-proclaimed lobster capital of the world. But wait — ...

Iowa, like every other state, is obliged to assess the proficiency of its students as part of the federal No Child Left Behind Act requirements. Every year, the percentage of students who test as ...