From heliest memories, Emma Hoeschler knew she wanted to be a teacher. “I've always been passionate about working with children, but it took me quite a while to decide what type of teacher I wanted to ...

Executive orders, rebukes, checks and balances. Say what? Of course, none of these terms are new, but until recently they were relegated to the social studies classroom for many of us. But, now, as ...

South Carolina social studies teachers are worried about the future of their profession as the Legislature considers eliminating standardized tests in their subject in elementary and middle school. In ...

One of the last units of study in the high school U.S. history course I taught this year was the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s. This unit functions as somewhat of a culmination of our ...

Some advisers have criticized diversity efforts, questioned the historical contributions of people of color, and promoted ...

Andrew Kozlowsky is a teacher at Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where he currently teaches AP US History and ESOL US History. Andrew’s education passions are standards-based ...

Tennessee school districts dedicate a varying amount of class time teaching history in elementary grades, with many districts choosing to spend less time on social studies as its own subject. Some ...

Social studies makes up only a small fraction of classroom time for New Hampshire elementary schoolers, but it features heavily in political debates about what's being taught in schools. Schools in ...

LANSING, Mich. (WXYZ) — In Paul Schmid’s Social Studies classroom at Novi High School, he asks students to think critically about how decisions in history would ...

Professional economists research, collect data, analyze, apply models—and, of course, they write. That’s true across the social sciences. Social studies without writing would be like math without ...