In this article, the author stresses the importance of including the discussion of the war in Iraq in the curriculum. He further shares how, in the spring of 2005, he had asked middle school and high school students what they thought about the Iraq War, what they had learned about the war in school, and what they would like to learn. Their answers…

Discusses communication gulfs hindering the social studies profession and suggests a national commission to deal with the priority issues of scope and sequence and values education. Condensed from "The Social Studies: Eightieth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part II," Chapter 12, pp244-69. (Editor/SJL)

In this article, the author discusses the importance of reforming the present school reforms mandated by the government. He emphasizes the need for better teachers and the need to reinvent the ways of recruiting, training, and retaining teachers. He also points out the need for a better curriculum and the need to create a national curriculum. He…

In this article, the author discusses the pedagogical negligence on civic education after 9/11 due to the No Child Left Behind Policy resulting in several counterproductive restructuring of curricula, which include the creation of a core ninth-grade course in civics, integrated service learning across the curriculum, and the restructuring of…