I have a long-winded defense of standardized tests that I am happy to inflict on anyone who will listen. But if time is short, I use an oft-repeated phrase from the education world: "If it isn't ...

Our state Legislature this session has refused to take any steps to end the costly and ineffective state-mandated, multiple-choice test for 11th grade U.S. history students. I teach Advanced Placement ...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress exams in civics, U.S. history, and geography have been indefinitely postponed for fourth and twelfth graders. The Obama administration says this is due ...

Eighth graders’ scores in U.S. history and civics dropped on the test known as the “Nation’s Report Card”—a decline that brings student achievement in these subjects back down to 1990s levels. The new ...