Latest NCSS and Social Studies News

The APA National Standards Working Group has posted the revised National Standards for High School Psychology Curricula (Draft, 2010) for review and comment.   read more »

Please find attached the Washington Partner’s summary of an event which was held on Monday, March 15 at the Brookings Institution. The event was held to release a new report by the Brown Center on Education Policy onteacher quality titled, America?s Teacher Corps.   read more »

Education Brief, OrlandoSentinel
March 15, 2010

“More civics education needed, advocates say”
Florida lawmakers are listening and may require more classes ? and testing ? on the subject
By Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel   read more »

Education Brief, Education Week
March 13, 2010

By Alyson Klein
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has released broad principles for renewing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that seek to address perennial complaints that the law?s current version?the No Child Left Behind Act?is inflexible and doesn?t set a high enough bar for academic achievement.   read more »

Education Brief, USA Today
March 13, 2010

By Greg Toppo   read more »