Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has proven its staying ...

In this Feb. 12, 2015 photo, Maguire Ballard, age 13, takes part in a trial run of a new state assessment test on a laptop computer at Annapolis Middle School in Annapolis, Md. The new test, which is ...

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