Eighth graders’ scores in U.S. history and civics dropped on the test known as the “Nation’s Report Card”—a decline that brings student achievement in these subjects back down to 1990s levels. The new ...

The Mississippi Board of Education voted to receive public comment on whether to eliminate the state U.S. history test as a high school graduation requirement. Gary Reyes TNS The Mississippi Board of ...

Mississippi board ends U.S. history exam as a graduation requirement in 2025. Students must still complete U.S. history coursework to earn a diploma. Board cites cost savings, reduced stress; critics ...

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Another set of test results shows the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on American students: National history scores dropped yet again, and eighth graders lost significant ground in civics for the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brian Domitrovic is a historian of supply-side economics Last week in high school across the country, the biggest Advanced ...

Eighth-grade U.S. history and civics test scores dropped last year to their lowest levels ever recorded by the Department of Education. These are just the latest declines among subjects tested since ...

On Monday, Jan. 20, former and future President Donald Trump will take the oath of office and return to the White House. Any historical event as significant as a U.S. presidential inauguration is ...

American 8th graders know less about history and geography than they used to--largely because we've mistakenly assumed that teaching those things isn't important. As if the news weren’t bad enough, ...