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 ...

Keynote speaker, journalist Carl Azuz speaks to educators from around the country at the annual National Council for the Social Studies conference in Nashville. Credit: Javeria Salman for The ...

A resolution on how the state measures students’ performance in history and social science was delayed for two months during ...

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The new “question-of-the-week” is: What do the Common Core Standards look like in Social Studies classrooms? In Part One of this series, Sarah Cooper, Michael Fisher, Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath, Jody ...