With a world literally and figuratively burning around them, high school social studies teachers are charged with engaging students in sensitive topics. Social studies curricula today, for example, is ...

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, ...

A group of all-star Arkansas teachers will share mini-lessons to help kids in kindergarten through 5th grade continue learning between school years. Meghan shares social studies lessons exploring some ...

Keynote speaker, journalist Carl Azuz speaks to educators from around the country at the annual National Council for the Social Studies conference in Nashville. Credit: Javeria Salman for The ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va.— A little more than 300 projects and over 400 students from across the state filled the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center Friday to present social studies topics they are ...

It’s a change that came quietly this fall, as officials delayed revisions to the state’s social studies course of study for another five to six years, citing an “exemplary” review from the Fordham ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lawmakers in the Iowa House passed a pair of bills Wednesday that would reshape curriculum in K-12 schools, outlining a list of ...

Elementary teachers are left largely to their own devices when it comes to social studies instruction, cobbling together materials from different places with little support or guidance from higher-ups ...

An ethnic studies requirement can remain in new social studies standards in Minnesota schools, a judge ruled Tuesday, though one part will require revision to go into effect. For the past three years, ...

Alabama students will get updated instruction during social studies classes about Alabama history, global affairs and certain topics like civil rights and the Holocaust, officials decided Thursday.

State lawmakers and education officials say they’re eager for a retry on Oklahoma’s academic standards for social studies after last-minute changes last year caused significant controversy and were ...