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 ...

Over the span of my 22-year career as South Carolina public school educator, I’ve taught in self-contained classrooms and I’ve been in departmentalized settings. Although I love teaching all subjects, ...

Bells Elementary School fifth-grade teacher James Cho has been named the 2021 New Jersey Council for Social Studies Elementary Teacher of the Year.. “James Cho is a lifelong learner who annually ...

Elementary school reading assignments on immigration to America, Black History Month social studies material and chapters on sexuality and gender for high schoolers have been marked for now as “do not ...

Kenneth Anthony receives funding from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program. He is a past president and member of the Mississippi Council for the Social Studies. Though public ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best social studies lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? In Part One, Carina Whiteside, Denise Fawcett Facey, Deborah Gatrell, ...

Exposure to covid-19 wasn’t Aasta Deth’s concern for her two young children on the first day of school. Exposure to religion in their public school curriculum was. Deth, who lives in Harrison, said ...

Students in Stacey McIntyre’s sixth grade social studies class at Slaughter Elementary School on Feb. 7 worked in groups to analyze a primary source on colonial Louisiana.