The goals of the Project on Social History (POSH), a secondary school curriculum written by teachers at Carnegie-Mellon University, are discussed and reasons why social history has fared so poorly at the secondary level are examined. (RM)

Presented is a selection from the last chapter of the Project on Social History (POSH) dealing with the changing family. Students are asked to speculate about the direction in which families appear to be moving and to discuss what they would like the families they form to be like. (RM)

Cites ways in which antique toys can contribute to a positive feeling among students toward urban high schools. Evidence is based on a program in which students were directed to bring a favorite childhood toy of theirs or their parents or grandparents to class. Students then researched toy use, manufacture, country of origin, and technology used…

An economics course for senior high school students which relies on cameras and cassette tape recorders in one locally developed project is described. A second is the effort by another high school to indicate a social studies curriculum meaningfully related to the real world. (Author/KM)

A social studies course for high school seniors combines a problems of democracy content with options emphasizing long-term accountability. Each student has a faculty adviser who encourages the student to pursue a specialized social studies topic. (Author/DB)