"America's K-12 education system is uniquely ill-suited to help students make sense of complicated world events and navigate contentious...

Each year, half a million middle and high school students "examine primary and secondary sources," analyze a historical subject and...

Alex Haley's Roots, which traced his ancestors back to Africa, was a very big deal when it was shown on TV in 1977. I was surprised to...

Most Americans are proud of our country and happy to be citizens, writes Michael Baharaeen on the Liberal Patriot. Political progressives...

Most Democrats say the public schools positive effect on the U.S. Most Republicans disagree. The partisan divide on the value of public...

Only 6 percent of eighth-graders can read Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech and identify two ideas from the Constitution or...

U.S. history textbooks don't include much about Latino Americans, concludes a report by Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and...

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...