Two recent films present powerful portrayals of the struggle for voting rights in America.

The featured lesson uses Woody Guthrie?s ?Dust Storm Disaster? to study the Dust Bowl from the perspective of those most affected.

Teaching about global events such as Haiti's earthquake can help prepare young people for playing an active role in the face of such daunting disasters.

Social Studies In Media Res  The spotlight on social studies learning is intense. For over two decades, we have been working as a community (often in partnership with related social studies organizations) to advocate for more social studies learning time, assessments, and professional learning support. We have documented the elimination of social studies instruction at the elementary level, and the reduction of course requirements and assessments at all levels. Historically, NCSS has issued formal position statements – many of which developed from approved resolutions of the annual NCSS…

A Position Statement of National Council for the Social Studies Approved and published June 2022 Introduction The year 2020 was a watershed year for our nation in general and for our educational, personal, and political use of technology in particular. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated changes that were already taking place and led to an unprecedented surge in online purchases and social engagement. The largest technology companies had one of their most profitable years in the midst of an overall economic downturn. A shift from in-person to remote learning and working depopulated…

Approved by the NCSS Board of Directors on May 18, 2020. Since the first identified case of COVID-19 was declared in the United States on January 15, incidents of verbal and physical harassment against Asians and Asian Americans have sharply increased (Yan, Chen, & Nuresh, 2020). On March 16th, President Donald Trump referred to COVID-19 as “the Chinese Virus” in a controversial tweet (Kuo, 2020), defending his phrasing and denying that it might be racist for several days before publicly declaring he would refrain from repeating the phrase (Vasquez, 2020). From mid-March, in one month…