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Download full textRandall, David; Robbins, Jane; Fitzhugh, Will – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2018
Serious history instruction in K-12 U.S. schools has been in decline for decades. History education in Massachusetts has, until now, fared somewhat better than in the nation at large. In 1993 the commonwealth enacted the Massachusetts Education Reform Act--a bipartisan plan to improve education--which mandated core standards and assessments in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Standards, History Instruction, State Legislation
Peer reviewedStotsky, Sandra; Bradley, Rafael; Warren, Eugene – Third Education Group Review, 2005
Less than one third of American eighth graders score in the two highest performance levels on the grade 8 mathematics test given by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Only a little over one third of Massachusetts eighth graders score at the two highest performance levels on the state's own grade 8 mathematics test. In 2002, the…
Descriptors: Test Results, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests, National Competency Tests
