ALBANY – Local education officials are lauding a new task force created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to analyze the Common Core Learning Standards. The governor recently announced the formation of the Common ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo’s Graduate School of Education will take a leading role helping teachers prepare for Common Core Learning Standards, adding to the coalition of educators in ...

Nearly every state has signed on to use the Common Core State Standards as a framework for teaching English/language arts and mathematics to students. Translating them for the classroom, however, ...

West Virginia legislators are debating a proposal that would repeal the state’s implementation of Common Core State Standards, a set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children ...

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo wants an education subcommittee to make recommendations on how to improve the implementation of the Common Core learning standards, which have been subject to increasing scrutiny ...

The widespread enthusiasm for social and emotional learning (SEL) is easy to appreciate. After all, it seems painfully obvious that children learn better when they feel valued, supported, and safe.