What’s different this year is that Milford is trying to raise her students’ performance to the level of the controversial Common Core state standards, not the old Louisiana grade-level expectations.

Common Core ushers in new educational methods that veer from old concepts of rote learning By Jill Tucker, Education Reporter Updated Sep 6, 2014 8:12 a.m.

Bridges in Mathematics, on the other hand, performed quite well—the K-5 materials were found to be both aligned to the common core and easy to use at all grade levels.

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“With the new math standard in the Common Core, there are no longer absolute truths. So 3 times 4 can now equal 11 so long as a student can effectively explain how they reached that answer.” ...

It's been a familiar scene in Louisiana public schools for more than a decade, that point in fourth grade when students learn how fractions are related to decimals. Judy Milford is teaching the ...

Lesli Henderson, a fourth grade teacher from Lusher Elementary School in the Hazelwood, shows Kris Clark (left) Lisa Cierpiot and Ceirpiot's son Caleb Close, 9, how to work through a math problem ...