BOSTON — As lawmakers heard testimony Monday on an initiative petition that would repeal the Common Core standards in Massachusetts, education officials launched a feedback initiative to allow the ...

As the draft common standards undergo their final revisions, many minds are turning to the question of how to put them into practice in classrooms. But as a recent meeting of leading educators and ...

Education experts have long argued for rigorous state standards on the theory they’ll lead to better curriculum—and higher student achievement. But in most of the U.S., literacy standards have only ...

Many educators and analysts have noted that there is a lot of empty space between adopting the new common standards and testing students to gauge mastery of those standards. Now, we are starting to ...

Massachusetts students will receive sex and health education that is intended to be more inclusive of the LGBTQ+ community and teach about bodily autonomy, mental and emotional health, dating safety, ...

NEW BEDFORD — While area schools follow outdated sex education curriculum guidelines from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, some districts and schools are making strides in ...

The Common Core State Standards state what students should master, but they are not a curriculum. Jumping from the standards to create lesson plans misses a crucial middle step of developing a ...

Carroll County’s Board of Education unanimously approved Wednesday two options for high school students whose parents want to opt out of the state’s new health curriculum standards. The options, ...

Living Things and Their Environment 6-8, 13. Give examples of ways in which organisms interact and have different functions within an ecosystem that enable the ecosystem to survive. *Earth and Space ...