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 ...

Social studies is a vast discipline. Teaching basic economic principles, the critical civics knowledge how to register to ...

Over a thousand students and dozens of educators offered ideas for how to have meaningful discussions about difficult topics. Here are some practical ideas — for use in or out of school. By The ...

Chloe Hunt is an investigative reporter for Defending Education. This week, the National Council for Social Studies—the largest professional association dedicated to social studies education—is ...

It’s been six months since the state passed the so-called “Freedom from Discrimination” law, and some educators say the new legislation has had a discouraging impact on the one classroom subject that ...

Oklahoma’s new head of education, Lindel Fields, is dropping an unconstitutional requirement for schools to teach Bible-based social studies lessons. The requirement — issued by the state’s former ...

The attacks on CRT have terrified our educators. But the public school system has always made it hard to teach controversial subjects. For a decade, Jonathan Greenberg, a social studies teacher at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) launched the process of redesigning the state's social studies standards earlier this ...

We are honoring the Top 10 winners of our Student Open Letter Contest by publishing their entries. This one is by Peter Philpott, age 16. By The Learning Network In this lesson, we walk students ...