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 ...

When Ben Zulauf started looking for a social studies curriculum just over two years ago, he wasn’t quite sure where to begin. Zulauf, the director of literacy and social studies in the Cicero School ...

More time on social studies boosts kids' reading scores, according to a new study--but more time on reading doesn't. More time on social studies in elementary school boosts reading scores—but more ...

A new RAND Corporation report finds that the basic infrastructure to support elementary (grades K-5) social studies instruction—academic standards, accountability requirements, assessment programs—is ...

This infographic was created by the Social Studies Collaborative of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and released in November 2018 in order to show how social studies has been ...

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East Aurora School District is looking to shake up its elementary language arts and social studies curriculum in the coming years. On Monday, East Aurora School District 131 staff at a meeting of the ...

Bells Elementary School fifth-grade teacher James Cho has been named the 2021 New Jersey Council for Social Studies Elementary Teacher of the Year.. “James Cho is a lifelong learner who annually ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Mearns of Granbury, dressed as an American Revolutionary War soldier, listens during a meeting on proposed social studies ...

COLUMBIA — As South Carolina gets ready to celebrate America’s 250th year of independence, many of its youngest schoolchildren are spending little time learning about history or civics compared to ...

Students in Stacey McIntyre’s sixth grade social studies class at Slaughter Elementary School on Feb. 7 worked in groups to analyze a primary source on colonial Louisiana.

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 ...