“America is not perfect, but perfection is not its promise. Opportunity is. And as long as we remain faithful to that idea, the American Dream will endure.” So wrote a high school student from ...

WASHINGTON — More students are learning the basics when it comes to history and civics, but they aren't rising to the next level, national tests show. The history and civics tests were given to ...

Madison Marino Doan is a senior research associate in the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Jonathan Butcher / @JM_Butcher Jonathan Butcher is the Will Skillman fellow in ...