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S.G. Grant

S. G. Grant is Professor Emeritus in Social Studies Education at Binghamton University in Binghamton, NY. His research interests lie at the intersection of state curriculum and assessment policies and teachers’ classroom practices, with a particular emphasis in the inquiry-based teaching, learning, and assessment of social studies. Grant has published over a dozen books including History Lessons: Teaching, Learning, and Testing in U.S. High School Classrooms (2003; Lawrence Erlbaum), Measuring History: Cases of State-Level Testing Across the United States (2006; Information Age Publishing), Teaching History with Big Ideas: Cases of Ambitious Teachers (2010; Rowman & Littlefield); with colleagues Kathy Swan and John Lee, Inquiry Design Model: Building Inquiries in Social Studies (2018; National Council for the Social Studies), Inquiry-Based Practice in Social Studies Education (2nd edition, 2023; Routledge), and The C3 Inquiry Revolution (2023, National Council for the Social Studies); and with colleagues Bruce VanSledright and Anne-Lise Halvorsen, Elementary Social Studies (Routledge, 2025). He won the Exemplary Research Award from the National Council for the Social Studies in 2004 for his History Lessons book. Grant served as senior consultant and writer on the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for State Social Studies Standards and as the project manager for the New York Social Studies Resource Toolkit project. His publications have appeared in Theory and Research in Social Education, Social Education, Teachers College Record, and the American Educational Research Journal.