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State Superintendent Ryan Walters' controversial social studies academic standards now are in place for state schools. How ...
Grade 5 students improved their performance by 3%, while Grade 8 students increased by 4%. Social studies performance in Grade 8 declined slightly by 1%.
Social studies slips Eighth-grade social studies was the only subject area to show a decline, with scores dropping one percentage point compared to 2024.
The 2025 STAAR data includes results for third- through fifth-grade mathematics and reading/language arts exams, fifth- and eighth-grade science exams, and eighth-grade social studies.
Tennessee families are sacrificing summer plans as third graders who didn't meet TCAP reading standards face summer school or tutoring.
Louisiana joins more than a dozen states that require third graders who are significantly behind in reading to repeat the grade, according to a 2023 analysis by the Education Commission of the States.
In less than four months, a new school year will begin and teachers will start teaching the hotly contested new South Dakota social studies standards.
A new 3D 'atlas' of the mouse brain promises to sharpen scientists' ability to measure brain changes and share findings across studies of diseases like Alzheimer's. The mouse brain atlas combines ...
The government is encouraging Japanese language education for students from third to 12th grades, and each locality could build its own plan to teach the language as a mandatory subject in some ...
The parents of a third-grade Virginia student were arrested after their son allegedly found a handgun at home and brought it to school, where he unwittingly pulled the trigger during class.
A Farmington woman and McCormick Elementary third-grade teacher, 51-year-old Heather Fernandez-Hoefer, has been arrested in connection to the 2020 murder of her husband, Robert Hoefer, 49.
Citing "The 1619 Project" as evidence of historical "misrepresentation" in public schools, House Republicans push to rewrite social studies standards.