The new question of the week is: What are your suggestions for how to make social studies classes culturally responsive? There are so many reasons why we need to make our classes culturally responsive ...

It is no accident that the new National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) definition of social studies is focused on “human experiences and the spaces in which we interact as humans.” The culture ...

Over the span of my 22-year career as South Carolina public school educator, I’ve taught in self-contained classrooms and I’ve been in departmentalized settings. Although I love teaching all subjects, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. Educators think it’s important to teach science and social studies to ...

Professional economists research, collect data, analyze, apply models—and, of course, they write. That’s true across the social sciences. Social studies without writing would be like math without ...