Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R.) announced Thursday he plans to replace Common Core with a state-designed education standard, WWSB reported. 
Six Republican presidential candidates advocated raising standards for students at an education summit hosted by Campbell Brown in New Hampshire on Wednesday. 
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R.) blasted reports Tuesday that teachers are being reprimanded for speaking out against Common Core standards on social media. 
A professor of education out of University of Arizona South is making the case for schools to ban homework from their education practices.
Dr. Etta Kralovec is the author of The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning claims that children’s time at home could and should be used in more meaningful ways and homework actually ends up undermining the overall learning process for students. 