3.0.0 1414 2023-01-11T16:47:41Z 2023-01-11T16:47:41Z Senate S S 2007-05-16 110 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-05-16T21:18:42Z American History and Civics Achievement Act 110 6525 HR 2008-07-16 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Identical bill CRS 2007-05-16 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2007-05-16 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress A000360 Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN] Lamar Alexander R TN N K000105 Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] EDWARD KENNEDY D MA MOORE 2007-05-16 True Education Academic performance Authorization Civics education Department of Education Economics and Public Finance Educational accountability Educational tests Elementary and secondary education Elementary education Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to education Government Operations and Politics History Secondary education Education 00 2007-05-16 Introduced in Senate 2007-06-28T14:57:15Z American History and Civics Achievement Act - Amends the National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act to direct the Commissioner for Education Statistics to give a priority to conducting national assessments of student achievement in history at least once every four years in grades 4, 8, and 12.

Requires the Commissioner to conduct, in at least ten geographically diverse states, trial state academic assessments of student achievement in: (1) U.S. history in grades 8 and 12; and (2) civics in grades 8 and 12.

Directs the National Assessment of Educational Progress governing board to select the participating states.

]]> American History and Civics Achievement Act Display Title American History and Civics Achievement Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act to require State academic assessments of student achievement in United States history and civics, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced American History and Civics Achievement Act Introduced in Senate 2007-05-16T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s1414is/xml/BILLS-110s1414is.xml 2007-05-16 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.