Bill Carey is executive director of Tennessee History for Kids. In 2022 I wrote a column about where Tennessee history is taught in the K through 12 public school curriculum. State law and social ...

Bowing to pressure, the state superintendent of public instruction has abandoned her proposal to end the third-grade history and social studies Standards of Learning test. The proposal drew a ...

In response to a request from school superintendents seeking ways to reduce testing requirements, the state superintendent proposed dropping the third-grade history and social sciences SOL test. The ...

State Superintendent of Instruction Patricia I. Wright told lawmakers this morning that she is “very comfortable” that the Virginia Board of Education will keep the 3rd grade history assessment. After ...