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March 4, 2026

Comment on Upcoming NAEP Civics Assessment Framework Update

National Association of Scholars

The National Assessment of Educational Progress's Civics Assessment Framework (NAEP-CAF) needs to be updated, above all to refocus upon essential civics knowledge and to remove alignments with pol......

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November 17, 2025

NAS Standards Inform Proposed South Dakota Mathematics Standards

National Association of Scholars

We are delighted and honored that South Dakota’s Department of Education has found the Archimedes Standards useful as a way to inform its own work.

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September 4, 2025

Scholars Applaud Introduction of Constitutional Literacy Bill in Michigan

National Association of Scholars

HB 4829 gives Michigan a chance to join this wonderful movement to restore public K-12 instruction in America’s ideals and institutions of liberty, republican self-government, and civic virtue.

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September 3, 2025

Letter: Public Comment on Iowa's Draft Social Studies Standards

National Association of Scholars

The Iowa Draft Standards improve upon the previous social studies standards—but that important flaws demonstrate the need for further revision.

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March 19, 2025

A Response to ‘Sikh Coalition’ Campaign Against American Birthright

National Association of Scholars

An organization called the Sikh Coalition appears to be organizing emails to various supporters of American Birthright: The Civics Alliance’s Model K-12 Social Studies Standards,......

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June 3, 2024

Press Release: Politics Out of Schools Act Published

National Association of Scholars

This model state legislation seeks to discourage politically motivated mass student walkouts in public K-12 schools to ensure and protect their impartiality as institutions open to the diverse politic......

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May 16, 2024

Letter: Comment on Idaho Academic Standards for Social Studies

National Association of Scholars and The Civics Alliance

The Idaho Department of Education has produced Social Studies Standards far better than those of other states. However, they would benefit from additional revision to ensure the best po......

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May 9, 2024

Letter: Comment on Oregon Draft Social Science Standards

National Association of Scholars

The Oregon Education Department should rescind the Draft Standards and replace it with a content-rich, unpoliticized social studies standard that replaces inculcation of radical polemic with teaching......

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February 27, 2024

Academia’s Self-Eating Snake

Kali Jerrard

Ethnic studies and educational activism are consuming curricula and the classroom.

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February 21, 2024

Connecticut’s Social Studies Standards Fail Students, Report Finds

National Association of Scholars

The Civics Alliance has just released Disowned Yankees: How Connecticut's Social Studies Standards Shortchange Students. This report provides a detailed critique of the Connecticut Elementary and......

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