Since the 1960s, social studies education in public schools has undergone a series of fluctuations. The 1960s and 1970s were periods of great reform and experimentation; much attention was given to how to teach and the content of process, yet there was insufficient concern for the goals of student learning. The 1980s saw a reaction to these…

Inspired by America 2000, the educational reform initiative proposed by President George Bush, these materials describe a way of rethinking the place of geography in the curriculum. It is proposed that both natural geography and social geography be taught, and that both should be taught in science and social studies classes. Activities to be used…