A state commission voted Friday for a rewrite of student math and education goals known as Common Core, but rejected suggestions that the state adopt math standards from Minnesota for lower grades ...

A state commission’s decision to not support specific recommendations for replacing the Common Core math standards is drawing praise from a business-backed group and anger from conservatives.

Solomon Friedberg, the James P. McIntyre Professor of Mathematics, has been appointed chair of the United States National Commission on Mathematics Instruction, the U.S.-adhering body of the ...