This investigation is designed to provide information on the development, purpose, and structure of shifts in ELA shifts and Social Studies and how they relate to the Core.    Objectives:  Identify the key shifts in ELA and Social Studies. Identify shift connections between the curricular areas. Reflect on critical components of ELA Standards and where/how they fit into Social Studies.   This investigation has three parts: Investigate, Create, and Connect. Please be sure to do all three sections. Investigate: Engagement 1 View the webinar: Building…

It was fall 1979. The Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati was gathering for its annual meeting. The top item on the agenda was the Iranian hostage crisis and how to handle the anti-Iranian fervor that was growing in the United States. Particular attention went to a young boy in Wilmington, Ohio—a small, closely knit farming community that was proud of its Quaker college, considered a beacon of tolerance and intellectualism. The fifth-grade boy on the meeting’s agenda had an American mother and an Iranian father working at the college. Being the lone child in town with an Iranian connection…

Social Education November/December 2001   Karima Alavi It was fall 1979. The Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati was gathering for its annual meeting. The top item on the agenda was the Iranian hostage crisis and how to handle the anti-Iranian fervor that was growing in the United States. Particular attention went to a young boy in Wilmington, Ohio—a small, closely knit farming community that was proud of its Quaker college, considered a beacon of tolerance and intellectualism. The fifth-grade boy on the meeting’s agenda had an American mother and an Iranian father working at the college.…

Comparing questions from the 1920 Census and the 2020 Census can be a great jumping off point into a lesson on the importance of a national count and how Census questions reflect the prior decade.

A “Dinner with Democracy” event encourages civil discourse, promotes deliberation, and exposes students to different perspectives. 

Our NCSS mission is very clear: advocacy is at the heart of our work. Advocacy for social studies involves collaboration with many other organizations and individuals in education. Throughout the past year, NCSS has focused its advocacy efforts on turning around the marginalization of social studies. We use information from the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) to call for an increase in daily social studies instructional time in Grades K-5, and stronger supports for high-quality social studies curriculum, assessment, and professional learning. We often distill our message down…

Linking Civics and Current Events Melissa J. Marks Leaders of Recent Nonviolent Revolutions Melissa N. Matusevich The Back Page: “Friend or Foe” Game

TSSP asks Meghan Manfa, past CUFA Chair, and associate professor at North Carolina State University and Chris Martel, associate professor at Boston University and CUFA Executive Board member about this important paper.   1. What is practitioner research—and why co-author a whitepaper about it? Meghan: We need to bring more teachers into conversations about improving social studies education. Practitioner research, including action research and self-study, provides a structure for engaging teachers as co-researchers. Here teachers engage in systematic and…

Civic education may have been pushed to the margins in schools, but children are doing civics all the time as they negotiate relationships and address problems on the playground, in the cafeteria, and in the hallways.

Editorial Team Editor Wayne Journell, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Associate Editors Anthony Brown, University of Texas at Austin Paul Fitchett, Auburn University Book/Media Review Editor Brooke Blevins, University of Idaho Editorial Board Sirkka Ahonen is Professor Emerita of social studies education at the University of Helsinki. She has published books on the adolescent perception of the nature of historical knowledge, the formation of historical identity, the use of history in post-socialist and post-conflict societies and of history of public…