Civics and history education teaches students how government works, how their country came to be and how to take part in democratic life: voting, debating, serving and understanding other points of view. Social studies, the subject that holds them, has often lost classroom time to tested subjects, even as public concern about civic knowledge has grown.
edCircuit's coverage is written for social studies teachers and the leaders who shape the curriculum. It looks at civic education in today's classroom, ways to celebrate and teach civic life, questions that transform history teaching, reading lists for Black History Month, teaching social studies alongside STEM, and the long debate over the decline of social studies. For classroom methods more widely, see Teaching Strategies.
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