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“A royal mess.” This is how California middle-school math teacher Barry Garelick describes math education today, especially under the Common Core national standards. In his book, Math Education in the ...

An article by Elizabeth Green (CEO of a nonprofit education news organization called Chalkbeat) that recently appeared in the New York Times magazine, attempts to explain why most Americans are bad at ...

(TNS) -- Frustrated parents headed to Sisk Elementary School seeking the insider code that would help them decipher Common Core mathematics. “I’m so stressed by this math!” said grandmother Diana ...

Brandy Frakes, an elementary school teacher at the Aspire University Charter School in Modesto, is tackling one of the greatest challenges facing educators: building support among bewildered parents ...

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 ...

Is Common Core math another bad idea, like New Math fiasco? Re: “A common frustration: Parents, forget what you know about math — Common Core is ‘absolutely insane’,” (Page A1, June 17): This article ...