As North Carolina FCS celebrates its 100-year centennial, it is time to reflect. For a century, FCS professionals have helped families apply research-based knowledge and principles. This article describes how American families have changed and how we have met those changes in our Extension roles. We also challenge FCS professionals to view the…

Assesses the academic rigor and cultural diversity of U.S. history curricula in North Carolina's community colleges and universities, focusing on whether survey courses and assignments were comparable at two- and four-year institutions; and whether women's and minority perspectives and local history were included in survey courses and electives.…

The book provides 13 model interdisciplinary teaching units for use with academically gifted students in grades four through nine. Each unit contains an introduction; objectives; introductory developmental culminating and evaluation activities; materials; and a bibliography. Topics of the teaching units include cemeteries, famous women, coastal…