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The Thomas B. Fordham Institute just released a new report that evaluates what states expect K-12 students to learn in two key subjects: Civics and U.S. History. The in-depth standards reviews were conducted by a bipartisan team of veteran educators and subject-matter...

June is Immigrant Heritage Month. Established in June 2014, it gives people across the United States an opportunity to annually explore their own heritage and celebrate the shared diversity that forms the unique story of America. It celebrates immigrants across the...

Call for Manuscripts Social Studies Journal, a peer-reviewed publication of the Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies, issues a call for manuscripts for our Spring/Summer 2021 issue. Social Studies Journal accepts submissions of original, full-length manuscripts...

Longtime PCSS Board member and annual conference fixture Amy Cohen has been posting interesting pieces on Hidden City Philadelphia, a site dedicated to exploring Philadelphia’s urban landscape in all its complexity through journalism and public history. Read Amy here:...

Jonathan Peri, President of Manor College, shared this message today... It was expected that election results would not be readily available yesterday or today, but again, there are a number of pundits who predict we’ll have results this week. You might be interested...

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Applications now available for the TEA-NCTA 2020 Summer Institute, Considering Early Modern East Asia through Maritime History. July 5-9, 2020. University of Colorado Boulder. From the 14th to 19th centuries, the sea closely linked countries of East Asia as they...

February is bracketed by social studies events as we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 15th Amendment on the 3rd and the 117th Middle States Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference which will be held February 28-29, 2020 in Towson, MD...

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