Evelyn B. Stacey coauthored this article. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) has directed the state Board of Education to replace the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Senate has voted to limit the length of the state's contract with a testing company whose assessments are based on Common Core education standards. The bill ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Governor's Council on Common Core Review is meeting at the state Capital for the first of several planned daylong meetings on Arkansas education standards. Gov. Asa ...

Last week, the state Education Department quietly posted school-by-school breakdowns of student scores on the PARCC test, used in 2014-15, that was aligned with Common Core.