PREFACE THIS volume presents the Conclusions and Recommendations of the Commission on the Social Studies in the Schools, sponsored by the American Historical Association . It is the outcome of a very large number of special studies and researches and of a vast deal of deliberation and reflection during the past five years, How the Commission came to be constituted in 1929, how it has functioned, and what particular work it has done, or attempted to do, are sketched in Appendix B, below. Here the summary statement may be made that the labors of the Commission and of its several committees, agents, and investigators, have issued in a comprehensive Final Report, embracing fourteeji major and several supplementary published volumes . Of these volumes, the Commission assumes ful responsibility for tom : A Charter for the Social Studies in the Schools, published in 1931 and dealing with "objectives" of social science instruction ; and the present volume of Conclusions and Recommen dations . The other volumes, the titles of which are given in Appendix B, below, are sponsored by the Commission in the sense that they have been authorized by it, that they have been submitted to the criticism of its members, and that they have provided many of the detailed data on which the generalizations of the present volume are based . ix
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