American eighth graders’ test scores in history and civics have hit lows not seen in nearly two decades, according to the first Nation’s Report Card released after the coronavirus pandemic.
Teachers in Florida will now learn more American history for civics courses, including the importance of religion in the public square.
The “1619 Project’s” Nikole Hannah-Jones said of her failure to provide the correct year for the start of the Civil War, “It is what it is.”
The Biden administration walked back its promotion of a radical Critical Race Theory group in the ed department’s guide to reopening schools.
Education researcher Stanley Kurtz said Secretary Cardona’s comments appearing to back away from Critical Race Theory amount to “bogus window dressing.”
More than 5,000 teachers have signed a Zinn Education Project pledge, vowing to defy laws banning the teaching of Critical Race Theory.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that requires high school students to learn about the evils of communism and totalitarian ideologies.
South Dakota lawmakers are using the “letter of intent” to block education bureaucrats from applying for federal grants to teach Critical Race Theory.
A “Civics Alliance” has acted to work to block a “radical activist” effort to take over K-12 civics education in the United States.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) asked the Florida State legislature Wednesday to exclude “unsanctioned narratives like critical race theory” by allocating $106 million towards civic education.
U.S. eighth graders’ scores in U.S. history and geography plummeted on the Nation’s Report Card assessment, with no improvement in civics.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced Friday he is officially putting an end to the Common Core Standards in his state and replacing them with standards that “embrace common sense.”
Florida high school students will likely be required to take a civics course in order to graduate. Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was behind the push to mandate that Florida students have a basic civics education, and a bill mandating civics education is advancing through the state government.
College graduates are responsible, in part, for a “knowledge crisis” regarding basic civic literacy in the United States, according to a recent survey that revealed “alarming results.” For example, less than half of college graduates surveys knew the term lengths of U.S. Senators and Representatives.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) used Twitter on Sunday to pander to teachers’ unions and the #RedforEd movement in advance of next week’s debates between 20 candidates vying for the 2020 Democrat nomination for president.
An education analyst who says the Common Core Standards have been the “worst large-scale educational failure in 40 years” said the business community propped up the education reform,primarily to provide basic skills to immigrant workers.
“I think it’s important that when we’re sending some of these students out, they’re not only prepared for a career or for higher education, they’re prepared to discharge the duties of citizenship,” the governor said.
Former New Hampshire Governor John H. Sununu said that young Americans no longer learn civics during an interview on SirusXM’s Breitbart News Daily radio show on Monday.
Democrats were too busy “fundamentally transforming” America during President Barack Obama’s long tenure to consider what was in the best interests of our constitutional democracy.
Only one-fourth of Americans could name the three branches of government in the U.S., according to a survey released this month.
An opinion column published by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) on Wednesday argues that poor high school civics courses are contributing to the rise of political intolerance on campus.
Last week, the Texas House approved a bill that would require public school students to pass a U.S. citizenship test as a high school graduation requirement. It would also eliminate the state’s current U.S. history year-end exam.
The superintendent of Brunswick, Maine implied that Trump’s election will have a negative impact on diversity and that a civics course was necessary since Trump won because of the apathy of a significant number of American voters.
Results of the “Nation’s Report Card” released this week by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) show that only 18 percent of 8th-graders are “proficient” or above in U.S. history, and only 23 percent are proficient in civics.
“A soothsayer bids you beware the Ides of March,” Brutus warns Roman dictator Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy. March 15 is the “Ides of March,” one of the most important events in the political history of western civilization, the anniversary of Julius Caesar’s assassination.
