Successful school leader and one-time CER awardee Deborah Kenny of Village Academies makes the case for good teaching as the key to triumphant kids, not standards alone. Read her Op-Ed about how the Common Core is affecting how schools handle young children here.

Nation’s Report Card study reveals mega-states lagging national average despite modest gains.

An Indiana website picked up this paper from Sandra Stotsky, Professor Emerita at the University of Arkansas, and dubbed it "The best explanation of why Common Core ELA standards are rubbish".

These charts from the Education Consumers Foundation not only help determine how well a school in a particular state or region is educating a student, but also shed light on the argument heard so often about poverty being an excuse for poor performance.

Is the national curriculum standards debate about to go nuclear? Neal McCluskey points out issues with Common Core now that sample test questions have been released. The question now is whether these issues will cause "the whole, dubious undertaking to suddenly melt down."

The National Center for Education Statistics released the 2011 Writing Report Card, where only 27% of U.S. 8th and 12th graders scored proficient or above.

The latest college-entrance exam results aren't pretty. So just how do we get U.S. high schools to do a better job preparing students for post-secondary success? Try choice.

Many schools are using Patriot Week (September 11-17) to call attention to the founding principles of our great nation, and renew a sense of spirit and commitment to the American Dream and the Constitution.

Even though science results on the 2011 Nation's Report card show an increase from 2009, 68 percent of America's eighth graders lack a basic understanding of science.

The Task Force sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations found that with U.S. students lagging behind the rest of the developed countries there is in fact a national security threat. Read a summary of the report and recommendations here.