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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 ...

"I have reading comprehension." She whispered it, as though it were a communicable disease. The young woman and I were chatting outside the meeting room at a prestigious university where an education ...

In a recent interview, Sue Pimentel, a lead writer of the Common Core State Standards for English/language arts, told me she has at least one regret about how the standards turned out: They don’t ...

Corrected: The headquarters location of Hanover Research was misstated in an earlier version of this Commentary. The firm is located in Washington. A high level of scrutiny and uncertainty surrounds ...

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right-tilted think tank and longtime staunch supporter of the Common Core, just released a survey of ELA teachers and some attendant conclusions about how the Common ...

Under the new Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts, students are learning to dissect, analyze, and comprehend the type of complex reading they will encounter in college and the ...

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 ...