The old approach to fifth-grade social studies in the Souderton Area School District was teachers lecturing to students with lessons centered around a textbook. Now, under a new curriculum being ...

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, ...

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.

Fifth-graders inevitably find themselves drawn into Kate Hunter’s social studies lessons, whether the subject is homelessness, bullying or the sacrifice of World War II veterans who were the students’ ...

Fifth-grade Social Studies classes at Sweetwater Episcopal Academy in Longwood have studied the election process and the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. The following are comments of two ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The Texas Board of Education wants to make changes to how kids learn history in the classroom. This month, the board voted to change social study standards for what students learn ...