Creating an effective compelling question is the cornerstone of any inquiry that engages students with evidence in critical ways.

If our students are to become engaged citizens, they must learn to ask questions about accuracy, credibility and bias, and to reflect on their own biases.

In this article, the authors share how children’s literature can be used to center the contributions of Asian Americans to the ongoing work of civil rights activism while disrupting harmful/racist stereotypes about Asian Americans.

How might election results and candidate positions have been different if there had been political polling a century ago?

Emphasizing common law and constitutional law to the exclusion of regulatory and administrative law fails to teach students the basic realities of our legal system.

Students will comprehend the many factors that influence an election when they analyze why this successful prediction system forecasts a popular vote victory for the Democrats in 2008.

To best prepare social studies students for democratic citizenship and civic participation, we need to equip them with strategies for critically consuming online media.