In 1970, the Sewings were one of the first African-American Families to buy a house in Johnson County. Future social studies students will be introduced to 2020 as the year of coronavirus, distance ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best social studies lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? We’ve all taught bad lessons and we’ve all taught good ones. This ...

The social studies rewrite has become a thorny political process, with officials clashing over the portrayal of slavery, civil rights, Indigenous people and the Alamo.

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 the Texas legislative session began in January, Meghan Dougherty was excited. The instructional social studies coach in Round Rock helps train teachers and hoped state lawmakers would pass bills ...