The questions, taken from a Common Core fourth-grade reading test, came to a Columbia professor in an email from an anonymous teacher, part of a blistering critique of the exam. The professor put the ...

Between March 25 and June 6, more than 4 million kids will sit for the trial run of national Common Core tests. Faced with a rise in parents who don’t want their kids taking these tests, state ...

North Carolina sixth grader Zoe Morris says the new standardized tests in her Chapel Hill middle school are wrong, and she wants out. Zoe and her father, Charlie, began researching Common Core ...

Without access to the questions, it is nearly impossible to use the tests to help improve student learning,” the letter states.In short, the PARCC tests seem designed to fail students. Ms. Fougner ...

The state today said it has publicly released about half of the questions used on math and English exams given to third- through eighth-graders last spring. The state Education Department said it made ...