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Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana have all seen dramatic improvements in reading scores by investing in "science-based" reading instruction.

Most Americans don’t know which countries the United States fought against in World War II or when the U.S. Constitution was ratified. Good luck having them point to Ukraine on a map, much less Belarus. Watch them stare blankly if you ask who represents them in the state legislature or what rights are protected by […]

Context is needed to help us understand what is going on around us.

Graciela Rivera, a bilingual librarian at Hartford Public Library's Park branch, is hosting summer events to support and engage with the local Hispanic community.

For more than a decade, educators, environmentalists, and dozens of policymakers have struggled to spur congressional action on Maryland Democratic Rep. John Sarbanes’s No Child Left Inside Act, which would allocate federal funding to environmental education initiatives.

"A republic, if you can keep it,” Benjamin Franklin allegedly quipped when asked what type of government the Constitutional Convention had crafted for the United States. More than two centuries later, astonishingly low levels of civic literacy suggest Americans are academically ill-equipped to do so. 

Indiana students saw nearly six months of learning loss in math and over four months in reading as a result of COVID-19, new research shows.

After almost three years of disrupted learning, many students are far below their grade level, especially in mathematics and reading.

Last year, the National Assessment of Educational Progress surveyed eighth-graders about their knowledge of U.S. history and civics. A sample civics question presented the results of a hypothetical presidential election with three candidates. Candidate A won 30 states, 271 electoral votes (50.4%), and had 47.9% of the popular vote. Candidate B won 20 states plus the District of Columbia, 266 electoral votes (49.4%), and 48.4% of the popular vote. Candidate C won 0 states, 0 electoral votes, and ...

Should third graders who don’t read well enough to pass a standardized test repeat their grade? That question is roiling states.