What Social Studies Students Can Learn from Historical Uprisings

Funding for public education can be a tricky topic to comprehend fully.

Urban legends, referred to by folklorists as contemporary legends, are fictional stories claimed to be true.

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.

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Contemporary literature gives readers a look at progressive writing styles that often reflect the world in which the works were written.

Etymology, the study of the origin of words and how the meanings of words change over time, is just as relevant in social studies as it is in English classes.

Cartoons can sometimes make a serious point.

To quote one of my previous graduate school professors, “education is simply made up of alphabet soup.

The times in which we are living are truly odd and unprecedented.