Using the National History Day theme for 1985, "Conflicts and Compromises in History," this article provides basic information about the history day program, four sample forms to aid high school teachers in submitting projects, and guidelines on how students should develop their projects. (JDH)

Reviews "Feminist Visions: Toward a Transformation of the Liberal Arts Curriculum" (Fowlkes and McClure, 1984) and "Integrating Women's Studies into the Curriculum: An Annotated Bibliography" (Franzosa and Mazza, 1984). Maintains that these two books will familiarize educators with the profound reassessment of the content, method, and structure of…

Reports the results of a study designed to determine whether eight widely used elementary basal social studies textbook series contained more "back-to-basics" content in 1979-82 than they did 10 years prior during the rise of the "new social studies." The data showed a marked influence of back-to-basics in all of these series.…

Provides background on questioning as an instructional technique, and offers nine practical guidelines, accompanied by examples, for improving classroom questioning. (JDH)

Resources on games and simulations are provided. These include organizations, sources, teacher materials, and descriptions of a sampling of games and simulations. (RM)

In discussing citizenship education three neo-Marxist theories are outlined. Approaches to determining content and process in citizenship education are offered. A consideration of alternatives and directions concludes the discussion. (MD)

Language issues are basic to cultural knowledge. By being self-conscious about language and how it is used in speech, social studies education can help teachers and students gain more control over their own lives and the course of their society. (RM)

Morrison's critique of the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative is representative of the views of those who oppose ballistic missile defense (Georgia Social Science Journal; v16 n2 p12-14 Spr 1985). Morrison's analysis is thoughtful, well structured, and well presented. However, it is quite wrong. Fallacies in his analysis are…

Steven Adragna's arguments for a space-based ballistic missile defense (Georgia Social Science Journal; v16 n2 p14-16 Spr 1985) are founded on the High Frontier organization's usual distortions of the historical record, coupled with a wildly optimistic technological euphoria shared by few of even the Strategic Defense Initiative's most ardent…

Elementary social studies textbooks in the United States are better today than they have ever been before. Changes in the educational climate, the textbook evaluation process, and the marketplace have led to vast improvements in published materials. (RM)

Provides a detailed description of nine ERIC resources designed to aid instruction about China. Included are teaching units, collections of activities, and teacher background material developed between 1981 and 1984 for use in elementary and secondary school settings. (JDH)

Describes the Chicago annual simulated German American Trade Fair for high school students. Discusses the background and logistics, and offers suggestions for teachers wanting to organize one. (EKN)

Presented is an economic classroom model in which elementary children learn important social studies concepts by observing or helping with classroom routines. Twenty percent of the school day necessarily spent on routines can be saved using this model. (RM)

Tests of statistical significance are insufficient for generating sufficient grounds to infer the presence or absence of a phenomenon. To avoid misuse of observed statistical significance levels as measures of scientific and practical importance, effect size can be used to interpret the meaning of effects. (Author/RM)

Salient findings from recent research about the nature of intellectual skills are highlighted, and suggestions about how to get students to think and then about how to get them thinking about thinking are provided. (RM)