Participating in the National History Day competition can help teachers evaluate middle- and high-school students' performances toward learning goals while providing an engaging way to interact with historical topics that require use of research and writing skills. Educators in this article offer recommendations, including to have a list of possible research topics available for students who may need help identifying a topic to research and to provide scaffolds to assist students in getting started on their projects.

Greg Kocourek, a veteran teacher at Bloomington Junior High School in Illinois, says he has gained fresh insights about the Holocaust during a summer trip to Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Memorial Center in Jerusalem. Kocourek, one of 30 teachers selected for the July trip, participated in seminars and in-depth study of archival materials, which he says will help inform his lessons in the classroom.

Feelings of being an outsider while growing up were amplified by civics education that was dominated by rote tasks and stories of European immigration, writes Anil Hurkadli, research fellow with the Harvard Kennedy School's Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project. Hurkadli writes about personal experiences as a child of immigrants from India and argues in this article that only by honestly presenting the complicated past of the US and adopting an inquiry-based approach is it possible to acknowledge the wrongs of the country and allow room for pride and patriotism.

The Pacific Legal Foundation has asked the US Supreme Court to review a case involving Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology's admissions policies. The legal group argues that the Virginia school's new admissions criteria, intended to achieve diversity, disadvantaged Asian American applicants and seeks to overturn a lower court's ruling that the school did not discriminate in its admissions.

The nation's report card, overseen by the National Assessment Governing Board and the National Center for Education Statistics, is progressing toward remote proctoring and administration of its assessments. Following a successful online field test in 450 schools, the long-term goal is to shift to online administration in 2024, with adaptive testing planned for 2028 and potential remote proctoring and administration after 2026.

Periods of heat and drought may force some farmers and ranchers in parts of the US to consider using irrigation to water their crops during the next 50 years. However, this can be a costly investment, and some areas of the US are already dealing with strained groundwater supplies.

The work of state archeological service in Greece has most often been performed by women who were paid little and their discoveries signed off on by their male bosses, according to a group aiming to bring digital attention to the researchers and their important work. The Dipylon Society is drawing notice to those who excavated under pressure to document items discovered amid construction and modernization projects.

In this two-part webinar series, join Allison Norrie and Stephen Armstrong as they share strategies and resources for educators to aid in teaching and monitoring election cycles. Sept. 12 and 14 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. EDT. Register here.

Learn with award-winning teacher and author Jessica Lander about historic laws, cases and movements that transformed immigrant education, and explore innovative approaches in classrooms and districts across the country today working with immigrant-origin students. Sept 19 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. EDT. Register here.