The featured document on federal aid for school lunches and the accompanying essay on the School Lunch Act provide students with a unique chance to study the role of government.

The key to success in AP Economics is to teach students to understand economics, rather than to memorize rules.

Recent Supreme Court decisions generated surprising controversy, from gun control to First Amendment issues. In 2011, the Court will weigh in on cases dealing with the hiring of illegal immigrants, protests at soldiers' funerals, and selling violent video games.

Students can use GIS applications to analyze a range of geographic patterns. In the lesson described here, ninth graders used ArcGIS Explorer to study economic development and the ways in which countries are classified as more, or less, developed.

Examining the 1977 movement to force implementation of a law protecting those with disabilities is a powerful way to engage students in civic action, particularly those, like students at an Upper Midwest Deaf school, who may consider themselves on the margins.

Specific classroom and school practices can help educators promote a secure and inclusive learning environment and prevent bullying.

Prelude Fall is the most beautiful season of all in New York City. Spring gives merely a fleeting taste of mild weather before the city bakes in too much heat; rare is the New Yorker who endures the long winter without complaint. Having lived in New York City all my life, first as a student and then as a teacher, the fall had always meant “back to school.” Only on a sabbatical year off did I finally learn to appreciate the joys of autumn when New York City is in all its glory—day after day you can move from inside to outside in whatever you are wearing while savoring the deep blue skies…