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, ...

ST. PAUL -- New back-to-basics social studies, history and science learning requirements released Monday by the Minnesota Department of Education will require that students learn numerous facts, ...

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 ...

Educators worry the plan will deemphasize topics like world geography, history and cultures. The board aims to vote on what specific content social studies lessons will include by next summer.

Over the weekend, the Virginia Department of Education released new standards of learning that, if approved next year, will radically reshape what and how students in the state learn in history and ...

The State Board of Education is in the middle of the first social studies rewrite in more than a decade. Tom Fox Texas is undergoing its first major rewrite of social studies curriculum in more than a ...

The Oklahoma Supreme Court ordered the state to stop implementing controversial social studies standards as a lawsuit works ...