Linda Tilly, executive director of VOICES for Alabama's Children, writes in Montgomery Advertiser , "The College and Career Ready Standards...are ours , and each school system within the state retains complete authority to develop its own curriculum...

T.H.E. Journal reports that advocates such as the OER Commons and Achieve are providing districts and teachers with tools for determining the degree of standards alignment of open educational resources. Read the article...

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that teachers and students at Silver Lake Unified School District 372 are in for quite a change next year as teaching methods to implement the Common Core standards take hold. Read the article...

Deborah Kenny, founder and chief executive of Harlem Village Academies, writes in The Washington Post that, "while some schools might choose to teach vocabulary in a rote, boring way, clearly the standards are not to blame." Read her op-ed...

Gregory A. Franklin, Superintendent of the Tustin Unified School District in Tustin, California, writes that, "Increasingly, jobs at all levels of an organization require employees who can communicate, collaborate and think critically." Read the...

Tony Sinanis, Principal of Cantiague Elementary on Long Island, N.Y., writes that the Common Core State Standards, "should be viewed as a guide for the skills our children need to develop in order to be college and career ready." Read the Education...

Lyn Cannaday, a high school English teacher in Phoenix who has been in the classroom for 16 years, writes in Education Week that, "I have heard many critics lament that the Common Core is taking fiction out of the classroom. My curriculum is living...

Michael Mazenko, an English teacher at Cherry Creek High School in Colorado, writes in an op-ed in The Denver Post that with Common Core standards, change is coming to schools, and reading is no longer "an option." Read the article...

According to Eagle Ranch Principal Peter Livingston, the school has started to implement the Common Core State Standards, designed to teach students to develop higher-level thinking skills, especially in English, language arts and math. Read the...

NEWS STATEMENT New Vice Presidents Named at Achieve WASHINGTON - January 24, 2013 - Michael Cohen, president of Achieve, announced today two major changes in Achieve's leadership that will further position the Washington-based non-profit...