It’s a truism that has led, in practice over the past three decades, to most elementary schools putting more time toward reading and math than toward social studies and science.

The phrase “Social Studies” means many things to many people. For some, it evokes images of fourth graders memorizing capitals and singing the fifty states in order.

NC Republican: “We don’t need to be teaching social studies and science” to kids under 5th grade North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson wants to eliminate the state Education Department entirely ...

When different disciplines interact with one another, new solutions emerge. The reconstruction of the Jacobs Center into Northwestern’s social science and global studies hub will stimulate new ...