If you’re anything like me, it’s hard to find time to read during the school year. There’s so much going on and so much to do that it can be hard enough to read the news and keep up with the world – let alone set aside a few hours to work through an actual […]
I saw an article the other day that really piqued my interest: How Hawaii Schools are Rethinking Social Studies. One of the great things about working at C-SPAN was meeting social studies teachers from around the country. It turns there are a lot of different ways to organize the social studies curriculum. Otherwise, it’s easy […]
Throughout the country, legislators are struggling to figure out how to improve civics education. Many people agree on the goal. They just don’t agree on the methods. In some cases, legislators have pursued misguided attempts to implement the citizenship test as a graduation requirement. This won’t do much, other than adding another barrier to graduation […]
Does social studies include more than just history? If you look at New Jersey’s model curriculum for social studies, you might not think so. New Jersey’s social studies standards already place a great deal of emphasis on history. There is so much content that civics and government gets pushed to the sidelines. In case you […]
There are people out there advocating for the U.S. Citizenship test to be administered as a graduation requirement. Like we discussed last week, this is a bad idea. This legislation passed in some states, including Arizona and Wisconsin, and legislators introduced it in others. It’s not hard to see why. Just about everyone agrees that […]