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 ...

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The rising tide of state testing has turned in Ohio, giving elementary-school students and at least some of their teachers something to cheer about. For the next two years, public-school students in ...

What’s the best advice you can give to Social Studies teachers who want to be more effective? Last Tuesday, I shared guest responses from three talented and experienced educators: Stephen Lazar, Bill ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. Educators think it’s important to teach science and social studies to ...

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 ...

Every year students at Edison Elementary School in Fraser work on projects at home for the Social Studies Olympiad but this year fourth-graders in Tina Frazier’s class worked together on a marathon ...

Although research has indicated that cooperative learning enhances student achievement, promotes self-esteem, and improves interpersonal relations, few studies have focused on cooperative learning in ...

Each of the Portage Township Schools elementary schools sent fifth-grade eight students to compete in the roundtable quiz on current events, maps, historical dates and other social studies topics.

Lawmakers in the Iowa House passed a pair of bills Wednesday that would reshape curriculum in K-12 schools, outlining a list of required social studies topics and establishing regular reviews of the ...