This issue of Social Education abounds with suggestions for teaching about historic and contemporary events in ways that develop the skills and knowledge students need to become informed and active citizens.

A personal letter from President Eisenhower to his older brother brings to light a number of issues ripe for classroom exploration ranging from Eisenhower's views on the Constitution to U.S. actions in 1953 aimed at securing access to Iranian oil.

This discussion-based lesson plan invites students to explore how personal economic decisions affect them in the short and long term.

Paul Spies, Jennifer Bloom, Michael Boucher, Carrie Lucking, Lisa Norling, and Rick TheisenWhen parents, teachers, and other community members in Minnesota learned that inaccurate and biased social studies standards were going to be implemented in their state, they mounted a rapid opposition and effective campaign.464Surfing the Net

A Position Statement of National Council for the Social Studies Approved March 2018

In the midst of an unprecedented pandemic we are being flooded with contradicting and inaccurate information. How can we teach our students to critically analyze, decode, and wade through these social mediated messages?

The Texas State Board of Education's proposed history standards has once again alerted us to the dangers of having standards developed by political activists rather than scholars.

When students understand the historical context of a given document, they learn much more than simply the words of a text.