January 6, 2025
The Oklahoma State Department of Education has done excellent work to improve the state's draft social studies standards.
May 22, 2024
House File 2545 details at length what Iowa social studies standards should look like. In doing so, it sketches a necessary and wonderful strengthening of Iowa’s public K-12 social studies educa......
May 16, 2024
The Idaho Department of Education has produced Social Studies Standards far better than those of other states. However, they would benefit from additional revision to ensure the best po......
April 25, 2024
These Standards require substantial improvement—and that this improvement should be conducted by recruiting an independent commission to redraft new social studies standards.
October 26, 2023
The Draft Standards does a great disservice to the citizens, students, and teachers of Maine as it consists largely of education school jargon, heavily inflected by radical polemic.
June 5, 2023
The National Association of Scholars and the Civics Alliance oppose the NCSS's newly revised definition of "social studies" and recommend reexamination.
