Oklahoma's State Board of Education approved new social studies standards, removing controversial content like Bible lessons ...

Over a thousand students and dozens of educators offered ideas for how to have meaningful discussions about difficult topics. Here are some practical ideas — for use in or out of school. By The ...

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 ...

When Sarah Kaka started teaching future social studies teachers about a decade ago, she talked about featuring diverse perspectives and strategies for addressing hard history—the more complicated and ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a world literally and figuratively burning around them, high school social studies teachers are charged with engaging ...

It’s been six months since the state passed the so-called “Freedom from Discrimination” law, and some educators say the new legislation has had a discouraging impact on the one classroom subject that ...

Oklahoma’s new head of education, Lindel Fields, is dropping an unconstitutional requirement for schools to teach Bible-based social studies lessons. The requirement — issued by the state’s former ...

Conservative education activists are accusing the Republican-controlled State Board of Education of helping liberals smuggle bits of Critical Race Theory into social studies standards that were ...

Chloe Hunt is an investigative reporter for Defending Education. This week, the National Council for Social Studies—the largest professional association dedicated to social studies education—is ...