Colorado Measures of Academic Success test results released last week gave schools a chance to gauge their performance in science and social studies, with less than a quarter of students scoring at ...

On a Friday morning near the end of June, Fran O’Malley posed a question to a classroom of students. “Can you think of an example of ‘freedom from’ and ‘freedom to’ in our democracy?” he asked. The ...

NORWALK, Conn. — Norwalk public school officials will yank hundreds of social studies books from fourth grade classrooms across the district in January after a mother raised concerns over the book ...

The committee revising Colorado’s social studies standards has reversed its plans to add the experiences of people in the LGBTQ community to its framework for students below the fourth grade after ...

This study examined the effects of teacher enthusiasm on pupil achievement in Grade 4, as well as the ability of teachers to exhibit interteacher similarity in enthusiasm. Findings indicate that ...

Educators worry the plan will deemphasize topics like world geography, history and cultures. The board aims to vote on what specific content social studies lessons will include by next summer.

It’s official: South Dakota has a new set of social studies standards that educators will start teaching to students in the fall of 2025. That’s after the South Dakota Board of Education Standards ...

NORWALK — The publisher of a fourth-grade social studies textbook being pulled from elementary schools in Norwalk due to its alleged “insensitive” and “inaccurate” depiction of slavery in Connecticut ...