Adopted by 44 states, the Common Core is a set of English and math standards that spell out what students should know and when. The standards for elementary math emphasize that kids should not ...

Santa Rosa Junior College scraps math, English placement tests During 2017-18 school year, about 3,000 SRJC students were placed in remedial English classes, and 4,200 in remedial math classes.

It also published a bilingual English-Spanish paperback book called "Math Power/Potencia de Matematicas" to help parents better understand what their kids are doing in class.

Meanwhile, other homework posers have left people stumped, like the fifth grader's math question in October 2022 that was described as bonkers.

BUFFALO, NY- Teachers are implementing the new Common Core learning standards in English Language Arts and Math classes in Western New York and all across the country. The Common Core aims to ...

More than 55% of students were below or well below the state expectations in math and 45% of students scored poorly in English during the 2018-2019 school year.

Matt and Kate Ezyk are perplexed by Common Core math and have seen Kate's sister struggle to help her daughter with homework. As parents of a kindergartener, they worried they weren't equipped to ...

A mom of two was left mortified after her attempts at helping her son with his math homework ended in disaster. Roxanne Campeau from Montreal in Canada was left red-faced after her 9-year-old son ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Jennifer Craig stared at her daughter's fifth-grade math homework. It was a three-digit multiplication problem, and it seemed simple enough. But her 10-year-old was supposed to ...

As schools around the U.S. implement national Common Core learning standards, parents trying to help their kids with math homework say that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing has become ...