Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. MIAMI, FL — When Gov. Rick Scott announced last week he was pulling Florida out of a multi-state consortium working to create ...

Florida may still use national Common Core tests even though Gov. Rick Scott signed an executive order on Sept. 23 limiting the state’s involvement with them. Scott raised concerns about Florida’s use ...

The vast majority of states have adopted Common Core academic standards, but individual states are still setting different definitions of "proficient" on annual math and reading tests, according to a ...

As Alabama legislators tabled a bill to withdraw from Common Core national standards, its department of education is adopting related tests and attempting to convince legislators and voters to keep ...

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s three children will take the tests associated with Common Core when Louisiana schools start testing next week, The News-Star of Monroe reports. Jindal has become a vocal ...

Later this month, students across the state will sharpen their pencils and sweat out more difficult standardized tests driven by a national goal to increase student achievement and readiness. That the ...

I'm joined now by my colleague on the NPR Ed Team, Cory Turner. He's done most of our Common Core reporting, and he edited this postcard series. Cory, thanks for coming in. CORY TURNER, BYLINE: Thanks ...

Here’s a fun mental exercise: The LSATs, the notoriously grueling law school entrance exams, take only about four hours to complete. Now imagine sitting down for an exam twice as long at half the age.

The questions, taken from a Common Core fourth-grade reading test, came to a Columbia professor in an email from an anonymous teacher, part of a blistering critique of the exam. The professor put the ...

See Correction/Clarification at the end of this article. Student scores rose on Common Core tests, but focus might remain on number of students who didn't take the test. This year's release of ...