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 ...

Colorado's Department of Education is updating statewide standards regarding the teaching of diversity in social studies classes. Individual schools and districts are still in charge of curriculum, ...

We social studies teachers are going to have our hands full this year with the many state laws restricting what can and cannot be taught. This series is sharing some ideas that might help us all.

At 13, Ayaan Moledina has come to expect the once-a-year mention of his religion when his social studies class focuses on the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “It’s all about how these were Islamic terrorists, ...

A few years ago, curriculum specialist Richard Cairn showed a photo from the World War II era to two young men he was working with on a campaign to promote teaching disability history. The image shows ...

The Colorado Board of Education is taking another look at the revisions to social studies standards that they made last month. A law passed in 2019 requires civics lessons to include the contributions ...

A new study finds that science and social studies classes may also help young students learn English, even when those classes include difficult and technical vocabulary. The study, which observed ...

On a rainy Friday afternoon at Santa Monica High School, ethnic studies teacher Marisa Silvestri introduced her class to the rap song “Kenji.” As singer Mike Shinoda narrated his family’s experiences ...

Thomas Fulbright formulated a lesson plan on U.S. citizenship that earned national recognition from the Gilder Lehrman Institute, a leading non-profit dedicated to supporting the education of American ...

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The new question of the week is: What are your suggestions for how to make social studies classes culturally responsive? There are so many reasons why we need to make our classes culturally responsive ...

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