No change in NAEP 8th-grade social studies
NAEP has released data from the 2014 social studies examination for 8th graders in the US: no significant change from the results in 2010.
History
Visiting the Black History Museum in Alexandria
A Black History Museum in Alexandria, Va., has much to teach us about the history of literacy in the US. It's small but moving.
The South will not rise again
Texas will be using new textbooks this fall, which give slavery an inferior billing when it comes to what started the Civil War. Wrong.
Election puts >100 women in Congress for 1st time ever
More than 100 women will serve in the US Congress beginning in January. It's the first time that's ever happened.
AP U.S. history fight reaches a boil in Colo.
A debate over the AP US history course is reaching a critical mass in one Colo. county school district. Students are protesting with teachers in the street.
Pakistani teen, Indian activist win Nobel Peace Prize
A girl from Pakistan and an activist from India are working to protect children and provide them with an education. They are this year's Nobel laureates.
Home page backdrop: 13th Amendment 149 years ago
We celebrate the passage and eventual ratification of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States, 149 years ago.
US Constitution turns 226 today
We join the US Department of Education and others in wishing you a Happy Constitution Day and Citizenship Day today, on the 226th anniversary of the US Constitution's signing in Philadelphia.
On the occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday
President Obama will be in Springfield, Ill., this evening, in attendance at a dinner to honor…
On ratifying the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php? … geId=87929 The UN’s treaty, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, known as…