🧵Useful article explaining how and why social studies (and science) have been marginalized in elementary schools. This issue is well-understood among social studies educators, and many of us have been advocating for years to fix it. How? 1/8 www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Administrators, teachers, and parents need to understand the extent to which social studies is marginalized, and that policy choices have led to the current marginalization of social studies & science in elementary. We can make different choices if we want different policies. 2/8