Teaching about Title IX presents rich opportunities to involve students in inquiry-based learning that examines the legacy of this groundbreaking legislation.

These highlighted defamation and libel cases offer provocative entry points into classroom discussions on free speech, the free press, and the First Amendment.   

This probing discussion of the Electoral College offers new approaches to teaching about this often-perplexing political system. 

James H. LandmanAs media coverage of high profile cases continues to intensify, so have tensions between two of our most fundamental constitutional rights: the media’s right to observe and report on a trial, and the defendant’s right to an impartial jury.189

Some important concepts and strategies can help social studies educators teach civics in an inclusive manner when not all students in the classroom are formal citizens.

Studying the nineteenth-century educator and civil rights leader Octavius Catto can help students move beyond the simplistic U.S. narrative of racial progress to a more complex understanding of race and resistance in America.   

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Students will learn about key Fourth Amendment concepts and the extent to which the amendment's protections apply to their lives in and out of school.