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 Position Statement of National Council for the Social Studies

"A primary object...should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing...than...communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country."
--George Washington

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Prepared by the NCSS Task Force on Ethnic Studies Curriculum Guidelines

Adopted by NCSS Board of Directors, 1976, revised 1991  read more »

Current Position Statements of National Council for the Social Studies

Curriculum Standards Table of Contents

![][1] Executive Summary
![][1] Foreword
![][1] Preface
![][1] Introduction
![][1] Thematic Strands  read more »

Curriculum Standards Table of Contents

![][1] Executive Summary
![][1] Foreword
![][1] Preface
![][1] Introduction
![][1] Thematic Strands  read more »

NCSS Curriculum Standards for Social Studies Revision  read more »

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

A Position Statement of National Council for the Social Studies

This position statement was prepared by the Technology Select Subcommittee, approved by the NCSS board of directors in 2006.

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A Position Statement of National Council for the Social Studies

Prepared by the Religion in the Schools Committee and Approved by the NCSS Board of Directors, 1984.
Revised by the Curriculum Committee and Approved by the NCSS Board of Directors, 1998.

National Council for the Social Studies, in its Curriculum Standards for Social Studies, declares that:  read more »