Jeffery D. Nokes, Brigham Young University

Corey Sell, Metropolitan State University of Denver Noreen Naseem Rodríguez, University of Colorado Boulder

These newly designed assessments allow a quick evaluation of the quality of student thinking, and promote appropriate instructional action.

An arts-based approach to secondary social studies can promote active learning, develop critical thinking skills, and advance the study of social institutions.

Tumultuous domestic and international events rocked the United States between 1947 and 1968. The bright hopes for peace that emerged from the ashes of World War II collapsed under the glacial pressures of an increasingly frigid cold war. The proliferation of new nations created unparalleled opportunities and dangers as the U.S. and U.S.S.R. competed for global power, and occasionally strayed across the boundary between cold and hot war. Conflict and stresses characterized the domestic environment, as rabid anti-Communism, the civil rights movement, and opposition to the war in Vietnam tore…