One of the two-state consortia behind new, Common Core-aligned tests has released questions from its spring assessments. They're hard. At least, that was the rep on new tests aligned to the Common ...

Students across New York have been taking the 2016 state-mandated standardized Common Core tests – first in English Language Arts and later this week in math – and from the beginning of the ...

New York education officials say the state's third- through eighth-grade students did slightly better on Common Core-aligned math and English assessments than last year, but the majority of students ...

Dissatisfaction with the Common Core and the emphasis on standardized testing led to a number of Lower Hudson Valley elementary and middle school students opting out of state math exams that began ...