With a world literally and figuratively burning around them, high school social studies teachers are charged with engaging students in sensitive topics. Social studies curricula today, for example, is ...

New social studies standards have been unveiled. It removes many of the controversial standards from former Superintendent Ryan Walters.

District sixth-graders will now learn world geography and culture, and U.S. history will be spread across seventh and eighth ...

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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 ...

School leaders have long been under great pressure to boost test scores. That’s why they often double down on time teaching reading and while slashing science and social studies. James Kim, a ...

Social studies standards should not be that controversial,” Senate President Pro Tem Lonnie Paxton, R-Tuttle, said.