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Students often face punishment from parents when they get a bad report card. But what happens when our school system gets one? The latest national "report card" is out, and it shows that our schools are failing Americans when it comes to science...

Science for just $15 USD. Summary In science news around the world, Chinas Zhurong rover rolls off the Tianwen-1 Mars missions lander and sends its first pictures back to Earth. Test scores of U.S. fourth grade students in science show a significant drop of three points on a quadrennial national test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, whereas scores of eighth and 12th grade students stayed flat. An auction fetches $1.2 million for a letter containing one of four extant instances ...

Pretty much everything the Trump-occupied Republican Party has been doing these days violates the basic tenets of democracy that American schoolchildren are taught.

WASHINGTON, May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Science scores of fourth-graders declined since 2015, according to results from The Nations Report Card released today by the National Center for Education Statistics

Chronic Absenteeism Is a Huge School Problem. Can Data Help? The pandemic has significantly increased the number of students who don’t attend class. Solutions aren’t easy, but school districts can recover the chronically absent by digging deeper into data. May 24, 2021 •  1/1: empty classroom 4 () The education losses resulting from pandemic school closures and an unanticipated shift to remote learning have slowed academic achievement. But n...

Dumbing Down Public-School Math in the Name of Social Justice Commentary In the interest of “math equity”—doing something about racial disparities in accelerated mathematics classes for gifted middle-school and high-school students—the state of California is considering simply doing away with public schools’ accelerated math track altogether. The current system, which allows youngsters with demonstrated math proficiency to start algebra in the 8th grade and take calculus as high-schoo...

Get the facts: Critical race theory urgently needed in U.S. schools OPINION: Robbing students of color of critical race theory would increase the likelihood that they struggle in a world where the odds are stacked against them (Photo: The Montgomerty Police Department) “Wall Street didn’t build this country. The middle class built the country, and unions built the middle class,” President Joe Biden said in his recent address to a joint session of Congress. But Biden is wr...

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Conservative media and activists are pelting Republicans lawmakers to abandon a measure that would authorize $1 billion a year in grants to pay for more civics education.

Blumenauer, Ruiz add support for Oregon civics education Democracy is fragile, congressman says as he proposes $1 billion in federal grants for efforts. U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer and state Rep. Ricki Ruiz have added their voices in support of civics education in Oregon high schools. Blumenauer, a Democrat from Oregons 3rd District, is sponsoring the USA Civics Act to provide $1 billion in federal grants to encourage Oregon and other states to require civics education. Ruiz, a Democrat...