At least, that was the rep on new tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards that millions of U.S. kids took last spring. Now you can be the judge. There are now a slew of actual math and ...

With fewer questions and no time limits, this month’s Common Core tests in English Language Arts and math will still be a challenge for city students. It’s the fourth year of the statewide exams that ...

Dissatisfaction with the Common Core and the emphasis on standardized testing led to a number of Lower Hudson Valley elementary and middle school students opting out of state math exams that began ...

Through the end of the year, staffers are looking back at and following up on articles and topics that resonated strongly with our readers in 2018, according to metrics on lohud.com. This column is ...

Local students beat the state average in math across the board, but we fell behind the state average Test scores from local districts on grades 3 through 8 Common Core math tests stayed above the ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. When Veera Sinha was a little girl in India, her father asked his kids to solve math puzzles in their ...