Education Week

The good news is that civics education, which teaches children the basics of good citizenship, is quickly gaining fans after being dormant for decades.

When they have the power to do so, parents choose a child’s school on the basis of such varied criteria as safety, discipline, moral values, curriculum, and the availability of extracurricular opportunities.

Three states, Montana, Nevada, and North Dakota, used to implement the Smarter Balanced tests, but these states saw many computer related failures.