AL.com’s Education Lab team is supported by individual donors and grants. Learn more about our work and sign up for our newsletter. Alabama Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, is backing a plan to improve ...

Alabama lawmakers are set to take a vote on a bill that supporters say will improve the state’s standing in math achievement in K-12 schools. The bill, called the Alabama Numeracy Act, is sponsored by ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - Over a decade and a half after their implementation, the State Board of Educational Standards has decided to move on from the Common Core State Standards for ...

For the first time in the study’s 50-year history, the National Assessment of Educational Progress’ 2020 Long-Term Trend Assessment revealed that U.S. 13-year-olds’ scores in both reading and math ...

The people who came up with the idea of the Common Core saw reading comprehension as a content-neutral set of skills, leading to massive confusion. The Common Core may be the most misunderstood ...