A Midlands woman is calling for an investigation of South Carolina teaching standards after students were given an assignment to pretend to be slaves. Now the school district is admitting the project ...

A California school is under fire for giving students a controversial homework assignment. KTLA reports that eighth-grade students at Hawthorne Middle School were required to keep a slave diary. The ...

Bryan Shaw does not teach history the way he was taught. The wars, the presidencies, the social movements — memorizing those details is not the end goal. Instead, learning about historical people and ...

COLUMBIA — Ursula Harris was forced into an awkward conversation with her Richland County School District One fourth grader, and she’s demanding to know why it had to happen at all. Harris’ daughter ...

The journal assignment is intended to provide a structured place to record ideas about the learning process. You will be writing about significant issues developed in the readings, class discussions, ...

Richland School District 2 has scrapped an assignment asking third-grade students to pretend to be slaves. Officials pulled the five-page handout entitled “My Life as a Slave” after a parent ...