Iowa educators have long boasted of their local control over what is taught in schools, even as the state has been chided by education reform advocates as the lone holdout on adopting state content ...
DYERSVILLE - In 2009, state leaders across the country came together to develop educational standards that almost every state would adopt. Iowa was one of these states and, from the standards set ...
DES MOINES - Gov. Terry Branstad said he's not trying to stop the Common Core in Iowa, he just wants to make sure local school boards get to choose curriculum. On Thursday, the governor announced he ...
ELDRIDGE, Iowa -- Several years after implementing Iowa Core, teachers and administrators say standards-based learning is working. Data to back up those claims, though, may still be several years away ...
DES MOINES | The Iowa Department of Education has rolled out a series of training classes for teachers across the state this spring as Iowa moves toward adoption of the closest thing the United States ...
The governors of Iowa, Maine, and Arizona recently issued executive orders on Common Core national education standards, but to little effect. On October 16, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad (R) wrote, “The ...