A bill introduced last week would end state testing for fourth and seventh graders, and save the state more than $1 million per year Elementary and middle schoolers could stop taking state ...

Social studies groups statewide are pushing back against a plan out of Albany they say would downgrade the importance of coursework in history and civics during a time when such lessons should take ...

All 50 states have social studies standards, but only 21 test students on the topic and nine require students to pass them to graduate, according to a new Tufts University analysis of state K-12 ...