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Common Core backers are sneaking a social and political agenda into nationalized curriculum, say critics, who now have new ammo in a writing lesson plan for teachers that they say gives a slanted ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: What do the Common Core Standards look like in Social Studies classrooms? In Part One of this series, Sarah Cooper, Michael Fisher, Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath, Jody ...

Update: This story was updated June 4 with information on the timeline for revising the history and social studies frameworks. For history and social studies teachers in California, the Common Core ...

Advocates of social and emotional learning (SEL) can learn much from the travails that bedeviled Common Core. A close look at Common Core offers a number of telling parallels that SEL proponents would ...

Keynote speaker, journalist Carl Azuz speaks to educators from around the country at the annual National Council for the Social Studies conference in Nashville. Credit: Javeria Salman for The ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: What do the Common Core Standards look like in Social Studies classrooms? The Common Core Standards are having a major impact on how our students our being taught - ...