After a year of controversy and upheaval, a more neutral set of academic standards for social studies instruction will ...

The elected 15-member board, where Republicans hold a majority, discussed key topics that would fall under a new framework approved in September. Members heard from teachers, parents and students ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Colorado State Board of Education on Thursday approved much-contested social study standards, adding back references to people of color and the LGBTQ ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...