South Carolina was one of three states last year—along with Indiana and Oklahoma—to require a replacement for the Common Core State Standards, amid a volatile political climate and challenges states ...

During a nearly 90 minute State of State address that dealt extensively with education, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley was silent on a new curriculum known as the Common Core State Standards, which ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) — The partnership between the South Carolina Department of Education and conservative media organization PragerU appears to have advanced in December as "PragerU Standards ...

South Carolina became the second state in the nation to repeal Common Core State Standards, a set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children should know in each grade in math ...

OF EDUCATION MADE THE FIRST STEP TOWARD REGULATING MATERIAL IN SCHOOL LIBRARIES. ACCORDING TO A PROPOSAL, THE GOAL WOULD BE TO PROTECT STUDENTS FROM MATERIAL THAT IS, QUOTE, NOT AGE OR DEVELOPMENTAL ...

In this week’s edition of Education Week, I wrote about South Carolina’s adoption and implementation of new standards intended to replace the Common Core State Standards. But one of my editors here, ...

After years of shooting meth and heroin, Charlotte native Kyle Baucom knew he would end up in prison — or dead. He wanted a way out, so he sought help from a Greenville substance abuse recovery home.

Common Core is politically toxic in South Carolina’s right-wing Republican circles. The standards, the product of a nearly nationwide effort to create uniform standards from state to state, started ...