SUGARLAND, Texas (KTRK) -- A sixth-grade social studies lesson is being slammed for its offensive portrayal of the Middle East. The presentation, which was shown to 6th graders at Fort Settlement ...

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 ...

Behind the scenes, one publisher went to great lengths to avoid mentions of race, even in the story of Rosa Parks. A current first grade history lesson in use in Florida.Credit...Florida Freedom to ...

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To learn about the Paleolithic Period of history Tuesday, Melissa Davenport's sixth grade social studies students went undercover. Davenport had her students at Christian Academy of Knoxville bring ...

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 ...

For her 6th grade honors class, math teacher Ana Sepúlveda wanted to make geometry fun. She figured her students “who live and breathe soccer” would be interested to learn how mathematical concepts ...

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 ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The Texas Board of Education wants to make changes to how kids learn history in the classroom. This month, the board voted to change social study standards for what students learn ...

(The Texas Tribune) The State Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies teaching plan that will dedicate more time across school grades to Texas and U.S. history while placing less ...

The State Board of Education voted Friday to approve a social studies plan that would teach more Texas history across school grades and deemphasize other subjects like world history, cultures and ...