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For millions of adults who never completed high school, the GED has been the gateway to careers and college degrees

Reporters describe their coverage of Common Core and ways to look at the rollout in lively and interesting ways.

An intensive survey of state officials by the Center on Education Policy offers insight into the challenges facing states as they implement Common Core State Standards

The political debate about Common Core is ongoing, but other issues are coming to the fore. What are the checks and balances amid the frenzy of products purportedly aligned to the standards?

What do officials of the two large-scale testing consortia – Smarter Balanced and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — see for the future?

The authors of two recent books on countries that fare well in international comparisons place the current U.S. initiative in its global context