These websites, gleaned from readers, personal research, and exhibits at NCSS, offer useful resources for teachers to encourage higher-level thinking and skills.

Councils for the social studies on university campuses offer unique services and activities and can be a great support to preservice teachers as they launch their teaching careers.

Financial education must go beyond focusing on the choices individuals face and examine the forces that shape and constrain these choices.

The change in leadership at the Federal Reserve offers an opportunity for an exploration of economic policies such as quantitative easing and philosophies such as the Keynesian school of thought.

Direct civic engagement enables students to learn through citizenship rather than simply about citizenship and empowers them to take effective action in the future.

Nelson Mandela’s words 50 years ago praising the ideal of a democratic society can serve as a jumping off point into a study of the anti-apartheid struggle.

Documents related to baseball players and the military draft can launch a lesson on the American home front during World War I, as the 100th anniversary approaches.

The featured document publicizing a nineteenth-century phonetic writing system can spark classroom research and exploration of communication tools from Visible Speech to Twitter and Google Translate.