A bill introduced last week would end state testing for fourth and seventh graders, and save the state more than $1 million per year Elementary and middle schoolers could stop taking state ...

Social studies groups statewide are pushing back against a plan out of Albany they say would downgrade the importance of coursework in history and civics during a time when such lessons should take ...

Ohio's decision to suspend the statewide social studies tests for fifth- and eighth-graders for the next few years may be necessary because of budget trouble. But the state should reinstate the test ...

No facts or concepts could be more relevant to the day-to-day workings of our democratic republic than those of civics, history, government and geography. And yet in public schools across America, ...

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U.S. children’s test scores in social studies, math and reading have all plummeted since the beginning of the pandemic, raising grave concerns about students’ future. Eighth-graders’ scores in U.S.

As different initiatives, priorities, and efforts to change teaching and learning in schools come and go, one challenge remains constant: Time is a finite resource. In elementary schools, especially, ...

All 50 states have social studies standards, but only 21 test students on the topic and nine require students to pass them to graduate, according to a new Tufts University analysis of state K-12 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Many school districts have decided not to pay the tab to give students standardized tests in social studies and science after lawmakers failed to restore state funding for the ...

The Texas Education Agency released elementary and middle school state assessment results Friday, showing that Coastal Bend and Corpus Christi students performed either similarly to or slightly below ...

The president of the Virginia Board of Education said yesterday that he will push to include essay questions on the state's standardized upper-level tests in history and social studies. Board ...

RICHMOND -- -- RICHMOND -- With unprecedented requirements for annual testing in reading and math, a 2002 federal law put a premium on student achievement in those subjects. But some Virginia ...