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As knowledge about the Constitution ebbs, so does allegiance to it. And because the Constitution was designed in significant ...
Donald Trump was mocked online for seemingly not knowing when the civil war ended, causing users to claim their own president couldn't pass a citizenship test.
Mississippi high schoolers no longer have to pass the U.S. history test to graduate. The Mississippi State Board of Education voted Thursday to remove the requirement starting this fall.
There is as yet no agreed definition or test for AI literacy. That does not make it easy to construct effective education policies and tools. Some researchers define it in terms of technical skills.
US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon unveiled new federal grant priorities focused on evidence-based literacy, expanding education choice, and returning education control to the states.
LAUSD Board approves early literacy test for K-2 students The district’s move brings it into alignment with a statewide mandate in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 23-24 budget ...
It will be election day by the time this column sees print, and the election results will be out in a day or two for the local results, and in a week for the senatorial winners.
If there's one thing most Americans can agree on, it's that financial literacy should be taught in high school. A whopping 87% of respondents said as much in a recently published American Bankers ...
More than 800,000 people each year take a 10-question civics test to try to become a U.S. citizen. A bill passed by the Iowa House and Senate would require students in grades nine-through-12 to ...
This brings us to another important term— literacy rate. By definition: Literacy rate is the percentage of people in a country who can read and write. It helps us understand how educated a ...
The Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE), which all graduate teachers across the country must pass before working in the classroom, now has a first-time fail rate of ...
This conversation has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. Let's start with the history lesson for folks who aren't familiar with the literacy test and when it was added to the Constitution.