At a Chicago fundraiser May 29, 2013, President Obama said “I don’t have much patience for people who deny climate change.” At his swearing in ceremony May 21, 2013, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz ...

States have begun to take sides on the new Common Core science standards released last week. The standards shift students toward engineering, away from traditional biology, chemistry, and physics ...

JEFFERSON CITY • Missouri became the latest state to adopt a new set of education benchmarks to replace the national Common Core standards, ditching the benchmarks Tuesday following conservative ...

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Conservative arguments for and against the Common Core. Many conservatives, perhaps a majority, now believe that the Common Core State Standards are among the worst things ever to happen in American ...

There has to be more to school than this. Critics of the Common Core initiative have long argued that it’s not just what the standards focus on, but what they don’t focus on, that has damaged U.S.

Georgetown University requires all undergraduate students to complete a course designated “Science For All” (SFA), grounded in the belief that all Georgetown students should understand scientific ...

Fortune examines the roles big business and big philanthropy played in developing the Common Core standards for public-school curricula and how they responded when the widely adopted guidelines ...