This week's ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the resulting turmoil on Capitol Hill has made for some very timely discussions in high school civics classes. This week's turmoil on Capitol ...

At the start of the school year, during the first few minutes of Hempfield Area teacher Ken Stough’s classes, students are asked to imagine their typical day. Stough and the students write down ...

What writers like me don’t know about the world outweighs what we do know by a ratio of 100-1, at best. We get away with reporting the news as if we know something because, as Mark Twain noted, we do ...

A polling place at Sardis Presbyterian Church in southeast Charlotte. When Southeast Middle School social studies teacher Eric Shock’s eighth-graders walked into class one day last semester, they ...

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