Points out the importance of a geographic perspective for those making complex public policy decisions. Identifies issues which might be affected by this perspective. Suggests that the geographic themes of location, place, human-environment interactions, movement, and regions would be useful in analyzing such issues. (KO)

The White House staff has extracted from speeches of President Richard M. Nixon quotations which speak directly to peace. (Editor)

Fables and facts about the equal rights amendment in New York State are presented to answer possible questions and misinterpretations of the proposed 27th Amendment. (JR)

Social studies educators share the responsibility for identifying gifted students and helping them to reach the limits of their abilities and talents. A set of recommendations with steps that social studies supervisors and teachers can take to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of gifted students is presented. (SR)

Discusses how questions dealing with location and place are important to the process of geographic inquiry. Argues that understanding the fundamentals of location and place is necessary to understanding the geographic and historical factors that interact at any place. Emphasizes that location is useful in understanding global relationships. (KO)

Guidelines are presented that will enable teachers to help students complete each step in a group project successfully. Guidelines are discussed for selecting the project, setting goals, planning procedures, choosing tasks, finding sources and resources, setting time limits, activity action, project completion, and evaluation. (SR)

Presents alternative educational principles from the point of view of a "social educator" which should be considered by the New York State Education Department as it revises the secondary social studies program. The primary function of a "social educator" is also discussed. (RM)

A review and summary of the background and purposes of the NCSS Social Studies Curriculum Guidelines are presented. (KM)

List of resources for labor studies that includes persons to contact and simulation games. (ND)

Social studies teachers must help students understand how key institutions in South Africa, especially the law, help perpetuate racial discrimination and the denial of human rights. Students should be made aware of the legislation and resultant practices of the major components of the apartheid policy in South Africa. (RM)

The revised 1983 National Council for the Social Studies Curriculum Guidelines are printed here in their entirety. (RM)

Until very recently, most social studies materials contained little discussion of prison reform. Inclusion of this vital subject in the curriculum is discussed. (JB)

Four means of studying the future are discussed: through extrapolation, or the study of trends; by writing scenarios of the future; through the use of games and through the utilization of the Delphi technique, making predictions in a specific field over a period of time. (JB)

The Peace Education Project described is incorporated in the Wisconsin High School Model United Nations. Dates and schedules are presented for the 1972 undertaking. (JB)

The author advocates futurism as a basis of social studies so that the field of futurology can contribute to the improvement of society. (Author/JB)