Social studies is a vast discipline. Teaching basic economic principles, the critical civics knowledge how to register to ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va.— A little more than 300 projects and over 400 students from across the state filled the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center Friday to present social studies topics they are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lawmakers in the Iowa House passed a pair of bills Wednesday that would reshape curriculum in K-12 schools, outlining a list of ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — From baseball to Rosa Parks, to the U.S. Border Wall, students from schools across the state are taking their social studies projects to the top. More than 500 students presented ...

Alabama students will get updated instruction during social studies classes about Alabama history, global affairs and certain topics like civil rights and the Holocaust, officials decided Thursday.

A group of all-star Arkansas teachers will share mini-lessons to help kids in kindergarten through 5th grade continue learning between school years. Meghan shares social studies lessons exploring some ...

Keynote speaker, journalist Carl Azuz speaks to educators from around the country at the annual National Council for the Social Studies conference in Nashville. Credit: Javeria Salman for The ...

The Texas State Board of Education is in the midst of the state's first overhaul of public schools social studies standards in 15 years. At a meeting this week, the board of elected officials ...

Florida initially rejected 81 percent of new K-12 social studies instructional materials publishers submitted to be included on the state's adoption list for K-12 teachers to use in their classrooms, ...

More time on social studies boosts kids' reading scores, according to a new study--but more time on reading doesn't. More time on social studies in elementary school boosts reading scores—but more ...

Florida rejected 35% of the social studies textbooks publishers hoped to sell to public schools this year and forced others to delete or change passages state leaders disliked, including references to ...

It’s a change that came quietly this fall, as officials delayed revisions to the state’s social studies course of study for another five to six years, citing an “exemplary” review from the Fordham ...