Rhetoric Versus Reality in Research on Social Studies

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Notes

1. The essay reviewed studies which employed three different methodologies to evaluate status and needs of social studies education. Commissioned by the National Science Foundation’s Education Directorate in 1976, the studies included a national survey of administrators and teachers, a review of literature related to trends in social studies, and a case study/field observer investigation of social studies in the schools.