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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A small group of Republican state Senators want to eliminate geography and economics questions from the Michigan Merit Exam, the state's version of a high school exist exam. The Merit Exam, formerly ...

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 ...

KALAMAZOO, MI -- Phoenix High School officials “had forgotten” to administer the M-STEP social studies and science tests as scheduled in 2022-23, which was part of a flurry of issues that led to the ...

Louisiana students will no longer take a readiness screener when they enter kindergarten, and fourth and sixth-grade students will eventually stop having to sit for an annual social studies test, ...