The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. A September 2020 ...

All North Carolina social studies teachers have new guidance for teaching social studies, to complement their new standards, via documents approved by the State Board of Education on Thursday. The ...

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, ...

Louisiana’s state board of education voted unanimously Tuesday to align the state’s fourth and fifth-grade social studies standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order mandating that the ...

The Louisiana Department of Education will update its social studies curriculum to reflect the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. This change follows an executive order from ...

Nearly 600 public comments have already been submitted to the Board of Education Standards so far as the South Dakota Department of Education prepares to hold its first hearing on controversially ...

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