With the current frenzied issuance of dozens of executive orders by Donald Trump and with the attempted termination of governmental entities, employees and funding of grants, a basic social science ...

Best as I can see, a social studies teacher in Wisconsin who committed the act of discussing with students what’s going on in the Legislature — particularly Senate Bill 411 — might cost that teacher’s ...

For many years, in the United States students have been plagued by average or low achievement levels in math and science proficiency (me included). Understandably, President Obama is attempting to ...

As different initiatives, priorities, and efforts to change teaching and learning in schools come and go, one challenge remains constant: Time is a finite resource. In elementary schools, especially, ...

In 2004, I founded the nonprofit organization Tennessee History for Kids. Our mission is to help teachers cover Tennessee history and basic social studies, and we do this through booklets, a website ...

Catherine Thomas is an interdisciplinary graduate fellow, David Kalkstein is a postdoctoral scholar, and Gregory Walton is an associate professor, all in the psychology department at Stanford ...

Assistant professor in School of Public Policy and Administration, York University, Canada Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of a universal basic income (UBI) has been touted by those across the ...

When the Texas State Board of Education rejected moving toward inclusive learning standards in social studies, it communicated that it didn’t value the whole community. Now, Texas social studies ...