Presents an azimuthal-equidistant map which was created to show the true direction and distance from Hawaii to all the countries bordering the Pacific area. Discusses the advantages of such a map and provides questions to be used in classroom discussions about it. (GEA)

Lists eleven organizations that offer educational resources on Asia and the Pacific. Includes both Asian and North American organizations and provides ordering information for each organization. (GEA)

Discusses a program at the John Eaton Elementary School in Washington, D.C. in which the students are taught about the People's Republic of China. Describes implementation of this interdisciplinary curriculum and concludes that the program helped promote better understanding of Chinese culture. (GEA)

Presents the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) presidential address to the annual meeting in Dallas on November 15, 1987. Examines the future direction of NCSS and discusses global interdependence as a challenge that must be given more emphasis in the social studies curriculum of the United States. (GEA)

Presented at the National Council for the Social Studies annual meeting in Dallas on November 16, 1987, this article discusses issues such as military spending, peaceful competition with other nations, and minority group affairs, which face the United States and its students as the year 2000 approaches. (GEA)

Presents a summary of the tape-recorded minutes of the thirty-first House of Delegates meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies which took place in Dallas, Texas, November 1987. (GEA)

Examines the costs of protectionism and the benefits of specialization and trade and concludes that current popular support for protectionist policies suggests a poor performance by social studies educators. (GEA)

A national citizenship survey, in which over 600,000 students in grades two through junior high school participated, showed that students have a positive but realistic view of their government, take their responsibility as citizens--and their right of free speech--seriously, and love their country because it is a free country. (RM)

A survey of social studies supervisors revealed that beginning teachers have inadequate knowledge of social studies content and teaching methods, both of which, according to the supervisors, are essential to good teaching. Reform is needed in teacher education. National Council for the Social Studies teacher education standards are inadequate. (RM)

Four possible futures for social studies education are presented: (1) the inertia of the past will prevail; (2) education will move, slowly but surely, toward agreed-upon ideal states; (3) the new social studies is not dead but only sleeping; and (4) a revolution requires a strong catalyst; computers may be it. (RM)

The life and work of Eleanor Roosevelt are discussed. Photographs are included. (RM)

Few people knew Eleanor Roosevelt as well as author Joseph P. Lash, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning "Eleanor and Franklin." In this interview Lash talks about Mrs. Roosevelt's personal characteristics, her educational theories, the role she played in attracting minorities to the Democratic Party, and FDR's influence on her. (RM)

Eleanor Roosevelt broke the rules of race relations when she became friends with a leading Black woman, Mary McLeod Bethune, founder and president of Bethune-Cookman College. Without the mentorship of Mary Bethune, Mrs. Roosevelt may not have understood the southern mentality, White or Black. (RM)

Because the Daughters of the American Revolution's (DAR) Black exclusion rule prevented Black singer Marion Anderson from performing in the DAR auditorium in 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the organization. Primary source materials regarding this incident and learning activities for secondary level students are presented. (RM)

Books, films, and additional resources available from the National Women's History Resource Service are included in this annotated listing of resource materials which can be used to teach about Eleanor Roosevelt in elementary and secondary social studies classrooms. (RM)