As different initiatives, priorities, and efforts to change teaching and learning in schools come and go, one challenge remains constant: Time is a finite resource. In elementary schools, especially, ...

Today, Breeanna Elliott, a history teacher and the outreach specialist at Boston University’s African Studies Center, shares why an interdisciplinary approach is critical to teach a balanced social ...

In 2004, I founded the nonprofit organization Tennessee History for Kids. Our mission is to help teachers cover Tennessee history and basic social studies, and we do this through booklets, a website ...

When the Texas State Board of Education rejected moving toward inclusive learning standards in social studies, it communicated that it didn’t value the whole community. Now, Texas social studies ...

Best as I can see, a social studies teacher in Wisconsin who committed the act of discussing with students what’s going on in the Legislature — particularly Senate Bill 411 — might cost that teacher’s ...

ST. PAUL -- New back-to-basics social studies, history and science learning requirements released Monday by the Minnesota Department of Education will require that students learn numerous facts, ...

State Superintendent Ryan Walters, who promised to overhaul social studies standards for classrooms, has released his set of ...