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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 ...

The latest results, released in late August, show how Kent and Ottawa county students fared on standardized tests.

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 ...

A State Education Department proposal to eliminate two social studies assessment tests has roiled a teachers' group, which called it a "short-term solution" to the state's budget crisis that would ...

Heidi Tyson, who is now a fifth-grader at Vidalia Upper Elementary School, made a perfect score on her 2023-2024 school year LEAP assessment in Social Studies. Tyson had been recognized for this ...

The annual mandatory STAAR test will soon be gone under a new law Gov. Greg Abbott signed this week. Public school students ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...