Joanne JacobsMay 23, 20231 minTest reading and civics at the same timeOnly 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...
Joanne JacobsMay 5, 20231 minHistory, civics and reading comprehension go togetherThe more students know about the world, the better they can understand what they read, writes Susan Pimentel in Education Week. The...
Joanne JacobsMay 4, 20232 minEducating citizens: We can do better, but will we?"The new National Assessment of Educational Progress civics and history results are as deplorable as they were predictable," writes...
Joanne JacobsMay 4, 20232 min40% of 8th-graders are 'below basic' in history Eighth-graders don't know much about U.S. history and civics, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which...