With careful preparation, history teachers can lead a successful AP Art History course that familiarizes students with key works and guides them in analyzing context and historical framework.

From handwritten letters of the American Revolution to typed emails from Iraq and Afghanistan, correspondence from U.S. troops offers students deep insight into the specific conflicts and experiences of soldiers.

The revised social studies standards offer invaluable strategies for teachers to plan powerful units and create engaging lessons.

Alan SingerHistorically, in times of national emergency detractors like to blame social studies for a range of ills in the education system. 161

Studying the 13 diagnostic questions that make up the Keys election prediction system can help students understand what issues really matter to Americans when choosing a president.

In the new Supreme Court term, the justices will delve into issues that are fundamental to American democracy: voting, marriage equality, religious freedom and immigration.

Lesson Plan on the Constitution Students will learn how the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution relates to private property and how the power of eminent domain was defined in a recent Supreme Court case. Students will review summaries from Kelo v. New London to gain a better understanding of the case, which dealt with the limits of a government’s right of eminent domain. They will also have the opportunity to defend one of the two viewpoints contained in this court decision.

English classes seemed boring to the author's tenth-grade Ramallah students, until they decided to launch the first Palestinian online youth magazine.

The featured voting machines patents can inspire thoughtful classroom discussion on voting rights, voting privacy, and the accuracy of voting machines.