Updates

"Students Fall for Misinformation Online. Is Teaching Them to Read Like Fact Checkers the Answer?" Read about SHEG's research in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

In his latest article, featured in Pacific Standard, Sam Wineburg discusses how to teach students a better kind of media literacy.

In his latest op-ed, Sam Wineburg writes that "bringing education into the 21st century demands that we rethink how we teach every subject in the curriculum."

California passes new law that aims to promote the teaching and learning of media literacy in public schools.

Sam Wineburg discusses his newest book in an interview featured in Slate.

Read our latest research about history assessments in the journal of Cognition and Instruction.

Sam Wineburg and Sarah McGrew's paper on lateral reading is available to read now.

What Is Learned in College History Classes? Read about our latest history education research in the Journal of American History: https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jax434

If you don't have access to JAH, you can read a pre-publication of the paper here: https://purl.stanford.edu/dj911vz8602

Thank you to the American Association of School Librarians for naming us as one of 2018's best websites for teaching and learning!

BBC World Service features SHEG's research.

Our new civic online reasoning classroom poster is available for free download!

Congratulations to SHEG's Sarah McGrew for being selected as a 2018 National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellow!

"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.