North Carolina’s Department of Public Instruction sent Lt. Gov Dan Forest 40,000 sheets of paper in response to 67 questions he asked about Common Core national education standards. That’s not all.

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LOS ANGELES - Results for some of the states that participated in Common Core-aligned testing for the first time this spring are out, with overall scores higher than expected though still below what ...