Two third- and fourth-grade English language arts and social studies teachers at Zachary Elementary — Jess McKowen Patti and Molly Bryan Talbot — were invited by William and Mary College to co-present ...

“Closing the Door on Innovation” argues the Common Core State Standards Initiative, which the National Governors Association developed with the U.S. Council of Chief State School Officers, would ...

Third-grade teacher Jess McKowen Patti and fourth-grade teacher Molly Talbot were honored with certificates of recognition Sept. 15 by the Zachary School Board for recently authoring four Common ...

School is in session at Elite Scholars Academy and there's something new this year other than notebooks, pencils and clothes -- the academic standards. The year-round Clayton County charter school is ...

At New Lisbon Elementary School in Wisconsin, it used to be difficult for principal Stephanie Moore to keep track of what students in each grade were learning from one year to the next. The school ...

This is another story in KPCC's ongoing series, Classroom Core, that takes a close look at how the Common Core teaching standards are playing out in schools in Southern California. Amid rows of chairs ...