By providing a critical frame through which to study history, essential questions engage students and facilitate deeper thinking about the content under investigation.

These strategies for integrating iPads and other multi-touch technologies in the classroom will enable teachers to raise the level of student interaction and engagement during social studies lessons.

The featured naturalization petition belonging to Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s daughter, who lost her U.S. citizenship when she married an Englishman, can spark an interesting lesson on citizenship rights, women’s suffrage, and the Fourteenth Amendment.

Allowing students to take the lead in a specific social action campaign enables them to take classroom learning about the democratic process to a much deeper level.

The role of the Federal Reserve and how it influences our economy can stimulate an interesting classroom discussion on the importance of price stability, employment levels, and interest rates.

When a course is centered on a series of projects, the projects accomplish the main intellectual work, and student learning is deep and complex.

Two experts on youth and civic participation present very different views on the controversial proposal to require high school students to pass the INS test.

In two distinct essays, voting and elections experts Norman Ornstein and Vassia Stoilov consider whether compulsory voting laws in the United States are the solution to low voter turnout.

A review of last term's Supreme Court cases can spur lively classroom discussion on issues such as technology and the Fourth Amendment, religion and workplace benefits, and prayer at public meetings.