Common Core

Officials at Hinsdale Township High School District 86 are beginning to look at how it will implement new Common Core State Standards, an initiative in schools across 46 states to increase academic rigor.

The award-winning Pinellas County Schools (PCS) has chosen ASCD as its newest professional development partner.

Common Core proponents have relied on bafflement and obfuscation to shut down inquiry by the paying public into the very political process of putting the initiative into action -- a process monetarily supported by private education corporations.

Facing a 2015 deadline to add more digital textbooks and materials to classroom instruction, Orange County schools chief operations officer Michael Eugene has about as many questions as answers.

Common Core mandates for success.

ASCD is pleased to announce the release of four new grade-level and subject-specific books in the Understanding the Common Core Standards series.