The Institute for Curriculum Services: National Resource Center for Accurate Jewish Content in Schools was launched in 2005 and is a special nonprofit national project of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. Supported by direct grants and donations, ICS is dedicated to promoting accurate instructional materials about Jews, Judaism, and Israel. Its work impacts more than 50 million children in American public schools and the millions of others in private schools, who learn about Jews, Judaism, and Israel in social studies classes.
For the third year in a row, ICS has been named one of the nation's 50 most innovative Jewish nonprofits in Slingshot '11-'12, a resource guide for Jewish innovation. ICS was also awarded a Slingshot Fund grant. Click here to learn more. To see ICS's entry in Slingshot '11-'12, click here. To see ICS's entry in Slingshot '10-'11, click here. To see our entry in Slingshot '09-'10, click here.
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs announced ICS as one of two recipients for the annual Award for Program Excellence. This award honors an exemplary and outstanding program.
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ICS has received
high praise for its work, and has recently been recommended as a concrete solution to the problems identified in
The Trouble With Textbooks.
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