Social studies is a vast discipline. Teaching basic economic principles, the critical civics knowledge how to register to vote, and world history, like pre-colonial Aztec culture, all fall under its ...

Natalia Benjamin, Minnesota's 2021 Teacher of the Year, asked her students at Rochester's Century High School to think critically about where they see different languages in their school. Benjamin's ...

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, ...

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 ...