STERLING — Last school year, new Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) assessments were introduced as a way to measure students understanding of the science and social studies. Results of the ...

A State Education Department proposal to eliminate two social studies assessment tests has roiled a teachers' group, which called it a "short-term solution" to the state's budget crisis that would ...

District of Columbia Public Schools has chosen a partner to develop items for its online social studies assessments of students in grades 6-8. Questar Assessment "will be developing new items and test ...

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Elementary teachers are left largely to their own devices when it comes to social studies instruction, cobbling together materials from different places with little support or guidance from higher-ups ...