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Last week’s report that test scores in civics and history are dropping should be concerning not just to teachers, but to all of us. The National Assessment

During the last legislative session, state lawmakers passed a measure that will require all school systems to adopt teaching materials that emphasize phonics, but critics worry that politicians are making laws about topics they know little about.

The state’s decade-old dropout prediction algorithms don’t work and may be negatively influencing how educators perceive students of color.

This Mother’s Day, let’s give mothers the gift of greater education freedom for students and their families.

WATERTOWN — The public education system in the United States is not an example of American exceptionalism.

Newly released data from the National Center for Education Statistics reveal that only 13% — 13%! — of students nationwide meet proficiency standards in U.S. history and civics. This troubling news comes on the heels of recently released data by the National Assessment of Educational Progress that revealed the largest drop in math proficiency ever recorded, as well as drastic declines in reading. The inability of the vast majority of U.S. students to understand the significance of our nation...

As the Texas legislature debates a number of substantive public education issues, transparency and accountability should remain top priorities, so that...

"Dont know much about history" is the first line of Sam Cookes 1960 song standard "Wonderful World," but it increasingly also describes the average K-12 public school student in the United States.

The Biden administration wants an additional 250,000 Americans to help support the nation's classrooms to address pandemic learning loss.

Our schools are failing. Across the country, English and math scores have plummeted thanks to bad pandemic policies that kept schools needlessly closed. But literacy rates had been in trouble even before COVID.