Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To learn the geometric concept of transformations this year, Crystal Watson’s eighth-graders drew up blueprints of apartments. As ...

Take heart, parents perplexed by the explanations required with the Common Core method (why isn’t 5 + 5 + 5 the same thing as 5 x 3 again?!). A first-grader who illustrated his critical thinking ...

(NEXSTAR) — Are you smarter than a Texas fifth-grader taking the STAAR Test? As another new school year begins, it’s never a bad idea to know what the kids are learning — or how hard the lessons are.