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Vail, Kathleen – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2004
In this article, the author presents several questions that are central to the debate over what should be taught in social studies classes; however, few academic subjects evoke as much passion as history. The debate comes when educators worry that social studies is vanishing from the curriculum, and with schools scrambling to meet requirements of…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Social Studies, History, Reading