The Common Core math tests began Wednesday, and many students have opted out of the exam. The math tests are given to kids in third through eighth grade. When the English tests were given earlier this ...

This is a sample 6th grade performance task for the common-core math assessment being developed by Smarter Balanced testing consortium. This is a sample 6th grade performance task for the common-core ...

Officials say opt-out numbers are expected to soar after Wednesday's Common Core math tests were administered for students in grades three through eight. Last week, the group Long Island Opt Out says ...

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 ...

Nearly 80,000 public school students in 100 districts across Long Island refused Tuesday to take the state mathematics exam given in grades three through eight, in a fifth straight year of boycotts ...

For five years, a San Francisco foundation funded, and a research organization closely monitored, a collaboration by 10 California districts to raise achievement under the Common Core math standards.

Wednesday students across New York finished their first day of Common Core State Math assessments. 3rd through 8th graders took the English language portion of the exams last week, and many districts ...

In a move likely to cause political and academic stress in many states, a consortium that is designing assessments for the Common Core State Standards released data Monday projecting that more than ...