This is in our DNA

We were founded on the same core principles that frame our work today.

In 1965, the company founders—Sandy Weiner, a CPA, and Irwin Levin, a middle school teacher—had a passion for civic engagement and a knack for asking tough questions. To help educators go beyond the textbook, they began to source a wide variety of high-quality learning materials and started distributing them through catalogs. Social Studies School Service emerged as an innovative and impactful distributor for the K-12 market.

Since 2002, under the leadership of second-generation owners David Weiner and Aaron Willis, the company has forged a new path as a publisher, developing both core and supplemental curriculum that aim to advance students’ abilities to think critically and ask good questions. With our programs being used in over 80% of the country’s school districts, the company has become a national leader in social studies education.