The percentage of New York City eighth-graders failing the statewide exam in social studies has risen dramatically since Mayor Bloomberg took over the public school system, jumping to 81% last year ...

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, ...

Political debate and pressure took center stage this year when it came to states’ expectations for how history and civics are taught in K-12 schools. Social studies standards help guide instruction in ...

The District’s State Board of Education has adopted new social studies standards that focus on the experiences of people of color, D.C. history and media literacy — marking the first revision to what ...

Last spring, Massachusetts eighth-graders took the state’s first ever civics MCAS exam, finally setting a benchmark for achievement more than six years after the state passed new social studies ...

Over the weekend, the Virginia Department of Education released new standards of learning that, if approved next year, will radically reshape what and how students in the state learn in history and ...