Common Core State Standards

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 4, 2011 - Last week, a St. Louis Public School principal was reported to have orchestrated…

Schools seem to start classes earlier each year, but the results of student tests — and the annual district report cards that depend on them — will be…

After more than two years of sometimes contentious debate by lawmakers and educators, new Missouri learning standards won unanimous approval Tuesday from…

Missouri education officials have 3,600 reasons to postpone approving proposed new learning standards for students in the state.That’s how many comments…

JEFFERSON CITY – Proposed school standards for Missouri are designed to make students more active learners, rather than just memorizing rote facts,…

After lawmakers decreed that Missouri drop the Common Core school standards and instead come up with a more local version, task forces worked for more…

Groups that have been meeting for the past year to come up with new standards for Missouri schools have turned their homework in to state education…

A joint House-Senate legislative committee on education got an earful on failing K-12 schools in Missouri's urban areas.The committee initially met…

On my street, and probably on yours, the kids went back to school this week, changing the rhythm of the neighborhood and evoking that peculiar sense of…

For any school district, the path to success is rarely clear, but in Missouri, new numbers create a MAP that is particularly hard to read.And that picture…