Education Week

What Makes for a Good Social Studies Curriculum?

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

Bethpage fourth graders take on engineering challenge with cultural twist

Fourth graders at Central Boulevard Elementary School welcomed parents and special guests to campus on Tues., Nov. 18, for an engaging “Build a Wigwam Engineering Challenge” that brought together STEM ...
The Journal

NU School Board passes social studies review

The District 88 School Board formally approved a review for the school’s K-12 Social Studies Program. Curriculum and Instructor Coordinator Amanda Thorson and district teachers Tiffany Gasow, Miles ...
Education Week

Social Studies and Science Get Short Shrift in Elementary Schools. Why That Matters

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, ...

Texas SBOE advances sweeping social studies overhaul, as critics warn of 'too much' content

The State Board of Education's list of topics for K-12 instruction have been criticized as unwieldy for students and teachers ...
WGHP

Lexington 4th graders receiving Valentine’s Cards to learn about North Carolina counties

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LEXINGTON, NC (WGHP) — Some social studies ...