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 ...

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 ...

A deadlocked Anoka-Hennepin school board has left social studies teachers in Minnesota’s largest school district heading into summer without clear direction on how they’ll teach new state standards ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Photo: Luboslav Ivanko, via Dreamstime. Last month, the D.C. State Board of Education voted unanimously to adopt new “anti-racist” and LGBTQ-inclusive standards for social studies classes that will ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this era of educational systems dominated by the pursuit of all things STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), this retired social studies teacher would like to buck the trend — ...

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.