Under the previous framework, students began learning about early American history in the fifth grade. When the new curriculum is implemented in the 2023-2024 school year, it will advance those ...

In 2022 I wrote a column about where Tennessee history is taught in the K through 12 public school curriculum. ... in its present form it would require that Tennessee history remain in fifth grade.

When it comes to teaching history, Paige Calhoun has thrown out the book. Well, almost.“It’s a boring textbook,” says Calhoun, a fifth-grade teacher at Hartford’s Kennelly School. The only ...

It was 2015 and Armstrong, a fifth-grade social studies teacher at Indian Trail Intermediate School, went to the funeral of beloved custodian “Teddy” Hartsaw at St. Paul AME Church.