The Iowa Board of Education approved the standards in August 2015 to establish learning expectations in four scientific domains, and students will learn about climate change in each.

The Iowa Department of Education's civics and U.S. history standards are "inadequate," according to a new study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.. The State of State Standards for Civics and U.S ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Teachers across the state will soon have more vague teaching standards for topics like climate change and evolution. Thursday the state board of education approved the ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa’s department of education released proposed changes to the state’s science education standards. The proposed update replaces mentions of climate change with ...

DES MOINES — The Iowa Department of Education has rolled out a series of training classes for teachers across the state this spring as Iowa moves toward adoption of the closest thing the U.S ...

New science standards in Iowa are removing key scientific facts, including information surrounding climate change. “Which is vaguer, obscures the fact that what teachers are supposed to be ...

UPDATE: U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan painted a sobering picture Monday of a once-vaunted Iowa school system now in stagnation … ...

DES MOINES — Conservative suspicion over the national standards known as the Common Core threaten to derail key parts of Gov. Terry Branstad’s education reform plans. Republican lawmakers in ...

DES MOINES - The state's education board Thursday unanimously approved new science learning benchmarks for students in kindergarten through high school. The standards include, over the objections ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Iowa’s department of education released proposed changes to the state’s science education standards. The proposed update replaces mentions of climate change with ...

DES MOINES | The state’s education board on Thursday unanimously approved new science-learning benchmarks for students from kindergarten through high school.