Teaching the Election Process With Essential Questions

Social studies encompasses several dynamics that affect daily student learning.

The skills and content taught in science and social studies are often relegated to a secondary importance when compared to literacy and math.

Capitalism, socialism, and communism are three key concepts in social studies, with complex definitions and complicated histories.

American democracy began as an experiment.

America was built on democracy, a set of rules that governs the people in a state or country.

Determining whether voting is a right or a privilege has been a battleground for states to control who can cast a ballot in elections.

In early 2019, I walked into an exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles that exponentially expanded my love and respect for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Across the country and the world, people are rallying behind the Black Lives Matter movement to enact change in a system that has historically been unjust to people of color.

Participatory citizenship is the act of citizens actively participating through community and political life to build a democracy that respects human rights.