Updates

"Our new work will support the creation of classroom-ready materials that will prepare students to confront the challenges of a digital society."

Do We Know What History Students Learn? It's not enough to say that they pick up critical thinking skills, write Sam Wineburg, Joel Breakstone and Mark Smith. It's time to offer evidence.

Learn why we need a new approach to teaching digital literacy in our new article out in Phi Delta Kappan.

Read our post "4 Tips for Assessing Digital Literacy in Your Classroom" on the Teaching Channel blog.

In Sam Wineburg's newest op-ed, he writes that "education, not regulation" is the answer to the problem of online disinformation.

SHEG's research on how fact checkers evaluate information online is featured by NPR and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Our latest research investigates how fact checkers engage with unfamiliar content on the internet.

Read our research on how multiple-choice questions from the National Assessment of Educational Progress fall short of tapping historical thinking processes.

Our cover article "The Challenge That's Bigger Than Fake News" for American Educator is out now.

Explore our newest lesson plans that feature documents from the Library of Congress.

A big thank you to the forty-five teachers from across the country and around the world who attended SHEG's professional development workshop “Core Practices for Inquiry-Based History Teaching” at the Stanford Teaching Festival!

Here's a complete list of the new, revamped, or translated lessons and assessments that we've published since the last school year started (fall 2016).

Looking for Mexican American history curricular materials? Explore our newest lessons and assessments!

For those who have asked about more recent history materials, we've recently posted three new lesson plans on late 20th-century and early 21st-century topics.

The Knight Foundation has selected SHEG to receive a grant aimed at improving the flow of accurate information.