Standards


NCSS Curriculum Standards for Social Studies Update-Draft Available for Comment

The NCSS Curriculum Review Task Force has posted a draft of the revisions to the NCSS Curriculum Standards for comment. This document represent the most recent efforts of the task force, and is a work in progress. The task force asks for input from the NCSS membership and other social studies professionals as it continues its work.  read more »





A Vision of Powerful Teaching and Learning in the Social Studies: Building Social Understanding and Civic Efficacy

A Position Statement of National Council for the Social Studies

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically… Intelligence plus character–that is the goal of true education.
~Martin Luther King Jr.

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Rationale


NCATE Social Studies Program Review

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NCSS Curriculum Standards for Social Studies

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Our 2006 Publications Catalog lists dozens of volumes that help you in your classroom and your profession. From standards to lessons to research, it's one stop shopping for the social studies professional! (Excerpts from the printed book of social sutdies curriculum standards appear below.)
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