Pennsylvania is one of 45 states that adopted national Common Core State Standards. State officials refer to the standards as “The Pennsylvania Core Standards” because they have added three appendices ...

Want to boil the blood of some Pennsylvania voters? Utter four words: “Common Core state standards.” For those leery of all things federal, all things Obama, the push to align academic expectations on ...

Governor Corbett has ordered a delay in the adoption of new high stakes standardized tests for Pennsylvania public schools. The new Pennsylvania Common Core standards were supposed to be implemented ...

Pennsylvania was among many states that ditched cursive writing as a mandatory subject in 2010 when they adopted Common Core ...