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The sources students consult, the kinds of arguments they make, differ from history to economics to geography.

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To learn about elections, Cherry Creek Elementary students voted for new playground equipment, while eighth-graders cast ...

The College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies (SSIS) provides a curriculum that examines human society in all aspects. Curriculum focuses on such topics as relationships among ...

Day after day of nothing to do other than scroll — on Insta, on TikTok, on YouTube. This was the reality for the teens of Social Studies, the FX docuseries that chronicled their lives as they slowly ...

The parents of a Massachusetts high school senior who used artificial intelligence (AI) for a social studies project have filed a lawsuit against his teachers and the school after their son ...

The object of inquiry in American studies is culture—usefully defined as a society’s “whole way of life”—the sum of the ways a society and its subjects at once understand and remake the world. Taking ...

The lawsuit names Hingham’s acting and former superintendents, high school leadership, the town’s School Committee, and a social studies teacher who assigned the project in question.

the student teamed up last fall with a classmate on a social studies project, part of a long-running contest known as “National History Day.” When the project was assigned, the student’s ...

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alleging their son's civil rights were violated after he was unfairly punished for using artificial intelligence to research and outline a social studies project. The case raises questions about ...