Common Core
 
We welcome your contributions to help us achieve comprehensive liberal arts education in every American classroom.
 
Liberal Arts Image
MAKE A DONATION.
Common Core has applied for status as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contributions to Common Core are tax-deductible to the extent provided by law. If your employer offers a matching gift program, please send us the appropriate form so that your donation can do even more. Send forms to: Common Core, 1016 16th Street NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC 20036.

 
JOIN OUR MAILING LIST.
Enter your information below. From time to time, Common Core will send you information about our efforts and other like-minded organizations whose products or services we think subscribers might find interesting, but we do not exchange, trade, rent, or give email lists to unaffiliated third parties.

 
 
News
FEBRUARY 26, 2008 — New Common Core report shows a nation STILL AT RISK. Nearly a quarter of students polled could not identify Adolf Hitler and half had no idea what the Renaissance was. To learn more read the report, press release or today's issue of USA TODAY.

Truest things are often said in jest. To wit, The Onion.

Out There
CONVERSATION: Common Core Executive Director Lynne Munson speaks with Susan Jacoby about her new book, The Age of American Unreason, on NPR. (cont'd)

VIDEO WATCH: MSN's No One Wants to Look Dumb campaign strikes a chord. (cont'd)

CAMPAIGN FILE: Sen. Barack Obama said “One of the problems with No Child Left Behind is that it has become so reliant on a standardized test model that—first of all—subjects like history and social studies have gotten pushed aside. Arts and music time is no longer there. So the child is not having the well-rounded educational experience I benefited from and most in my generation benefited from.” (cont'd)

Blog