WARREN -- Last month, the fifth-graders in Mary Lynch's class at the Angelo L. Tomaso School went on an around-the-world journey for a social studies project on explorers. The students picked an ...

The authors found that students who spent 30 minutes more daily on social studies, however, performed better on the 5th grade reading test—by 15 percent of one standard deviation—than their ...

"Robinson said he'd work to keep history, science and a number of other subjects out of first through fifth grade curricula ... we don't need to be teaching social studies,' he writes.

Temecula Valley Unified School District elementary schools may not have enough social studies textbooks ... community in a book meant for kindergarten through fifth-grade students.

It is unclear which social studies ... McGraw Hill fifth-grade textbook, for example, mentioned slavery 189 times within a few chapters alone. Another objection: An eighth-grade book gave outsize ...

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 ...

It’s official: South Dakota has a new set of social studies standards ... 1763-1820 in fourth grade, then world history from 1300-1648 and American history from 1820-1908 in fifth grade.