The first round of Colorado Measures of Academic Success test results were released this week, setting a baseline for years to come. Fourth- and seventh-graders took the first social studies tests ...

New Hanover County Schools recently announced it will include the 1898 massacre in its fourth-grade social studies curriculum. That means the insurrection that killed as many as 300 Black ...

On a Friday morning near the end of June, Fran O’Malley posed a question to a classroom of students. “Can you think of an example of ‘freedom from’ and ‘freedom to’ in our democracy?” he asked. The ...

NORWALK, Conn. — Norwalk public school officials will yank hundreds of social studies books from fourth grade classrooms across the district in January after a mother raised concerns over the book ...

STERLING — Last school year, new Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) assessments were introduced as a way to measure students understanding of the science and social studies. Results of the ...

The results from Colorado’s new science and social studies tests may not be pleasant, but if the state is serious about raising educational achievement, they are necessary. The low levels of mastery ...

For decades, California fourth-graders marked a familiar ritual, collecting Popsicle sticks, cardboard and craft store items to build scale models of the state’s historic missions. In San Diego County ...