Test your knowledge and see if you can pass a Common Core fifth-grade math test.There are 15 questions in this sample. When you're done, see how well you did! Test your knowledge and see if you ...

Pierre the Pelican "checks his answers" against Pelicans center Jason Smith as they answer sample questions from a new Common Core test on Friday, March 7, 2014. (Michael DeMocker, NOLA.com | The ...

Pierre the Pelican remembered the word "prism" has a special use in mathematics. Did you? (Michael DeMocker, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) Tuesday's Common Core fifth-grade mathematics question ...

Common Core, a national set of educational standards adopted in 2010, established reading and math benchmarks that children must reach from kindergarten through 12th grade.

Moreover, Common Core curriculum content standards have significant gaps that leave students poorly prepared. Common Core Standards math pushes Algebra I from eighth grade to high school ...

As a whole, Common Core rolled out nationwide in 2010. Forty-one states currently implement some form of the program, which is described on the Common Core website as "a set of clear college- and ...

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 ...

Despite Common Core and more testing, reading and math scores haven't budged in a decade. ... Eighth grade students posted an average score that was 19 points higher than in 1990.

“It goes beyond Common Core to embrace common sense.” State standards are benchmarks that dictate what students must know by the end of each grade level, and how courses are taught is shaped ...