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 ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

A resolution on how the state measures students’ performance in history and social science was delayed for two months during ...