Civic activism can't be required in Texas public schools if it requires communicating with federal, state or local officials, reports...

The more students know about the world, the better they can understand what they read, writes Susan Pimentel in Education Week. The...

"The new National Assessment of Educational Progress civics and history results are as deplorable as they were predictable," writes...

Eighth-graders don't know much about U.S. history and civics, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which...

Concord High School in Northern California is under pressure to give up its "Minutemen" mascot, reports Stephanie Magallon for NBC Bay...

Worcester (Mass.) public school students won't be going on field trips to nearby Old Sturbridge Village any more, reports Neal McNamara...

Washington state plans to make ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement, but it's not clear what that means, writes David J....

Florida is approving new "anti-woke" social studies textbooks, reports Sarah Mervosh in the New York Times. Some publishers think the...

Writing social studies standards is always controversial. Often they're vague and meaningless, but sometimes they're insanely detailed,...

The new Advanced Placement African American studies course was revised after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called it anti-racist...

I'm so old I don't know the words to Conjunction Junction. Schoolhouse Rock, animated musical shorts on grammar, history, civics,...

"We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom," Martin Luther King Jr....

The "history wars" are a fight between "imaginary enemies" concludes More in Common, after surveying Americans. "Both Democrats and...

Public schools have lost touch with their mission and purpose, writes Robert Pondiscio, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise...

"Americans are losing faith in the ability of public schools to teach controversial issues, writes Natalie Wexler. One person's "hard...

New laws restricting how teachers can discuss "divisive issues" try "to impose a singular narrative of the United States, because —...

Sixty-three percent of people trust local public-school teachers according to a new poll by PDK, an educators' group, reports Libby...

Russian schools are watching war movies, taking "virtual tours" through Crimea and "celebrating Russia's 'rebirth' under President...

My daughter never had an American Girl doll, because I was too cheap to spend that kind of money, even if each doll had a history back...

The City of Orlando's email promoting a Fourth of July fireworks display set off fireworks of its own with a sour jape: “A lot of people...