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Professional Development
Mastering the Common Core: A Four-Day Training for District Leaders
The Choices Program is excited to offer a new professional development opportunity to district-level social studies leaders.
New Edition
Dilemmas of Foreign Aid: Debating U.S. Policies
Students explore the history of U.S. foreign assistance and the institutions that distribute aid today.
New Edition
U.S. Immigration Policy in an Unsettled World
Students delves into the history of immigration to the United States and articulate their own views on the future of immigration policy.
Scholars Online Videos
The Limits of Power: The United States in Vietnam
Scholars Online Videos bring university scholars into secondary level classrooms. They are designed to be used along with curriculum materials.
New Edition
The Middle East in Transition: Questions for U.S. Policy
Students explore the Arab-Israeli conflict, the significance of oil, the Arab Spring, and other issues that shape U.S. ties to the Middle East.
Curriculum
iBooks Textbooks
iBooks Textbooks include enhanced graphics, embedded videos, and other interactive materials. iBooks Textbooks can be viewed on an iPad or iPad mini.
Curriculum
eText Classroom Editions
In eText Classroom Editions, Choices materials are broken up into files that can be easily posted to a learning management system or course site.
New Curriculum
Indian Independence and the Question of Partition
Students explore the era of British colonialism, Indian campaigns for independence, and the legacies of the 1947 partition.
Teaching with the News
Debating the U.S. Response to Syria
Students analyze the issues that frame the current debate on U.S. policy towards Syria.
Professional Development
Online Learning Module
A self-paced, noncredit learning module designed to introduce educators to the Choices approach and resources for teaching about contested international issues.
Teaching with the News
Fifty Years after the March on Washington: Students in the Civil Rights Movement
Students Analyze what motivated young people to join the movement and what their experiences were like.
Curriculum
Russia's Transformation: Challenges for U.S. Policy
Using readings, maps, cartoons, and primary sources, students explore Russian history and consider the U.S. relationship with Russia today.
Curriculum
North Korea and the Nuclear Threat
Students utilize readings, resources, and simulations to explore the history of North Korea and understand the issues surrounding its most recent nuclear test.
Teaching with the News
Debating U.S. Drone Policy
Students will analyze the issues and controversies surrounding the U.S. use of drones.
Curriculum
China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.S. Response
Using readings, documents, and simulations, students explore the history of U.S. relations with China.
iBooks Textbook
China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.S. Response
This book is available for download on your iPad or iPad mini with iBooks.
New Curriculum
Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
Students trace the history of the black freedom struggle from Reconstruction through the 1960s.
iBooks Textbook
Global Environmental Problems: Implications for U.S. Policy
This book is available for download on your iPad or iPad mini with iBooks.
Teaching with the News
On the Brink of Nuclear War: Leadership and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Students assess the roles of Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro in the crisis.
Teaching with the News
The Conflict in Syria
Students consider the challenges facing the international community as it weighs its response to the conflict in Syria.
Teaching with the News
U.S. Policy in the Middle East: Analyzing Political Cartoons
Students explore current issues in the Middle East and their relation to U.S. policy.
Curriculum
Choices receives the Buchanan Award for U.S. in Afghanistan
The Buchanan Prize is awarded annually to recognize an outstanding curriculum publication on Asia designed for any educational level.
Teaching with the News
The United States and the Iranian Nuclear Program
In this lesson students analyze the issues that frame the current debate on U.S. policy towards Iran.
Teaching with the News
The Costs of War
In this lesson students explore the human, economic, social, and political costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Curriculum
The Middle East in Transition
Drawing on maps, cartoons, and primary sources, students examine the history of U.S. involvement in the Middle East from 1900 to the present.
Teaching with the News
The Arab Spring: One Year On
In this lesson students explore the concept of revolutions, learn about various Arab Spring protest movements, and assess the accomplishments of the movements.