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Whether year-round school or weeklong Thanksgiving break, school calendars provoke passion. Now there's debate and pending legal action over the length of winter break.

The latest data from the Nation’s Report Card are disastrous. Eighth grade students’ proficiency in U.S. history and civics dropped to the lowest point since the exams were first administered in 1998. U.S. history scores declined from 263 in 2018 to 258 on a 0-300 scale, and civics scores fell from 153 in 2018 to 150, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or the NAEP.

Can you really appreciate the rights that you possess as an American if you’re ignorant of how those rights have been exercised, protected, and abused over the course of our nation’s histo...

May the fourth be with you! (Happy Star Wars Day) I am a proponent of a total education....especially in history and civics for without a knowledge of these essentials then an educated citizenry will be pliable to the ideas and programs of authoritarianism.....as we see today in our beloved country. I bring all this up…

The Nation’s report card came in and it revealed that 8th grade scores in history and civics have dropped.

Test scores in history and civics have declined slightly for eighth grade students in the U.S., according to results that show an increasing number of children

On the "Nation's Report Card," history scores were the lowest ever, and civics showed the first decline ever.

Test scores in history and civics have declined slightly for eighth grade students in the...

Eighth-graders’ test scores in U.S. history and civics fell to the lowest levels on record last year, according to Education Department data released…

Record low performance in U.S. history and civics reverses gains since 1990s