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Just 13% of U.S. eight grade students meet proficiency standards for U.S. history and civics, according to a Wednesday report from the Department of Education. Data released by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) shows that the improvement on the topics seen in the 1990s has been almost entirely eliminated between 2018 and 2022. Rating on a 0-500 scale, testing found that

The 28-year-old woman who unleashed deadly terror at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville on Monday is just the fifth female mass shooter in US history, data shows. The gunman, who police have only identified her as a local white woman, shot dead three children and three adults when she stormed into the The Covenant School armed with two assault-style rifles and a pistol. She was

Iam Tongi, a high-schooler whose guitar broke midway through the season, became the first Hawaiian and Pacific Islander to win “American Idol,” putting a national spotlight on island culture and sparking a wave of local celebration. “Hawaii is a very close-knit community, and so when we see somebody trying to succeed, a lot of us are all cheering from the privacy of our living rooms, just

MIAMI — Maybe Kevin Garnett was right. Maybe, as he screamed in celebration of Boston’s 2008 NBA championship, anything truly is possible. The Celtics are halfway to history, and that alone has gotten them entry into a very small club. Of the first 150 teams that trailed a best-of-seven series 3-0 in NBA history, just 14 – 9.3% – found a way to extend the matchup to Game 6. None of them have