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.

The results of the featured research study can help teachers become practiced communicators when presenting African American history to their students.

The Library of Congress’s Slave Narratives Collection present students with an opportunity to expand their understanding of slavery in America while grappling with questions about interpretations of the past.

The C3 Framework serves as an excellent guiding tool as students examine public issues and communicate their views to public officials.

The revised standards for the preparation of social studies teachers address the purposes of social studies education in a democratic society and the kinds of knowledge, skills, and dispositions teachers need to accomplish these objectives.