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 ...

Colorado’s standardized social studies test could potentially be a casualty of budget cuts. Colorado administers the Colorado Measures of Academic Assessment social studies standardized test to fourth ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.