This is a sample 6th grade performance task for the common-core math assessment being developed by Smarter Balanced testing consortium. This is a sample 6th grade performance task for the common-core ...

Starting Wednesday, students across the state are expected to begin the math portion of the Common Core exams. Students took the ELA tests last week, but a Newsday study showed that about 42 percent ...

Could you pass a Common Core English or Math exam? Students across the state are opting out of taking standardized testing. If you want to give it a shot, you can visit the Common Core website. But ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. When Veera Sinha was a little girl in India, her father asked his kids to solve math puzzles in their ...

Wide-ranging boycotts of the state Common Core math test showed no sign of abating in Long Island’s public schools, as more than 90,000 students refused to take the exam this week, a Newsday survey ...