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, ...
On a Friday morning near the end of June, Fran O’Malley posed a question to a classroom of students. “Can you think of an example of ‘freedom from’ and ‘freedom to’ in our democracy?” he asked. The ...
New Hanover County Schools recently announced it will include the 1898 massacre in its fourth-grade social studies curriculum. That means the insurrection that killed as many as 300 Black ...
Some Portsmouth parents have launched a petition against Cradock Elementary School that levies a number of accusations, with one notably being the elimination of science from the fourth-grade ...
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, ...
(The Texas Tribune) The State Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies teaching plan that will dedicate more time across school grades to Texas and U.S. history while placing less ...
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