Part I. Getting to Know You.
- Chapter 1. Beauty or Beast? Margaret Smith Crocco.
- Chapter 2. Spreading the News about Social Studies; Gene Maeroff.
- Chapter 3. The Information Media: Social Studies' Main Competitor; Carlos Cortes.
- Part II. Historical Perspectives.
- Chapter 4. A Fickle Lover: Experiences with the Media in Historical Context; Ronald Evans.
- Chapter 5. Headlines and Furrowed Brows: NCSS Engagement with Social Studies Critics and the Press; Tedd Levy.
- Chapter 6. Dispatches from the Front Line of the Culture Wars; Linda Symcox.
- Chapter 7. The Illusion of Knowledge: Editorial Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of History; Richard J. Paxton.
- Part III. Lessons from the Field.
- Chapter 8. The Press and Global Education; Merry Merryfield.
- Chapter 9. Riding the Tiger: The Press, Myra, and Me; David Sadker.
- Chapter 10. Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop; Mark Sass.
- Chapter 11. What Counts as a (News/His)Story? Whose (News/His)Story? Catherine Cornbleth.
- Chapter 12. When Your Lesson Plan Ends Up on the Front Page; James McGrath Morris.
- Part IV. Teaching about/with the Media.
- Chapter 13. Give Us 8 Seconds and We'll Give You…the Business; Doug Selwyn.
- Chapter 14. Children's Exposure to Trauma and Violence in the Media: Evolving Literacy Skills to Counter Hype and Foster Hope; Michael and Ilene Berson.
- Chapter 15. Reading the News and Reading the World in High School Social Studies Classrooms; Alan J. Singer and Michael Pezone.
- Part V. New Media and Citizenship Education.
- Chapter 16. Democratic Education and Self-Publishing on the Web; Howard Budin.
- Chapter 17. Blogs in the Machine; Judith Cramer.
- Part VI. Improving the Relationship.
- Chapter 18. Practicing What We Preach; Richard Theisen.
- Chapter 19. Covering the Conflict and Missing the Point; Richard Lee Colvin.
- Chapter 20. Down from the Tower and into the Fray: Adventures in Writing for the Popular Press; E. Wayne Ross.