Introducing movement into lessons can help students maintain focus and attention and boost engagement in learning.

In 1970, the Sewings were one of the first African-American Families to buy a house in Johnson County. Future social studies students will be introduced to 2020 as the year of coronavirus, distance ...

Greetings from the National Council for the Social Studies’ annual conference in Boston. I’ll be here for the next couple of days attending sessions on best practices for teaching history, geography, ...

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? We’ve all taught bad lessons and we’ve all taught good ones. This ...

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The social studies curriculum provides many opportunities for highlighting ethical issues. Through reflections on history, students can critically explore ethical topics including the factors that led ...

It's hard to know what's worse -- brainwashing kids or lying about it. Parents worried their kids are being indoctrinated with critical race theory can't get straight answers. Local school boards and ...

Two education technology companies are working together to add more interactivity to social studies learning. Britannica Digital Learning, the education arm of the company that produces Encyclopedia ...

We've known for some time that Texas' new social-studies textbooks would likely represent a step backwards. MSNBC's Zack Roth reported last fall on proposals to place books in public-school classrooms ...

America’s social studies and civics teachers have never felt more pressure. The United States is in the middle of a traumatic month of political upheaval that, so far, has included a violent assault ...