This special section provides teachers with excellent examples of rigorous project-based learning.

A truly critical inquiry should identify unequal power relationships in society and offer students counter-narratives to transform unjust social relations.

Teaching young people to track congressional representatives and public issues through Congress can engage students with their government and advance their civic participation.

A close look at the controversies surrounding recent student protests against campus speakers can launch an interesting classroom discussion on free speech.

Social studies is alive in the classroom where you teach, in your community, in the state where you work, and across the globe.