SocialStudies News

Social studies success
Northville Record, MI -
Feb 2, 2006Great things are happening with the Hillside Middle and Meads Mill middle schools' social studies departments. Learning about apartheid ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Feb 3, 2006"Relieved of the glacial weight from the last ice age, northeastern North America is slowly springing up and, researchers now find, moving south, by about a ...

Teachers hail introduction of practical exam. in Social Studies
Hindu, India -
Jan 29, 2006TIRUCHI: Teachers hail introduction of practical component in Social Studies for Standard X public examinations this year by the Central Board for Secondary ...

'Black history is American history'
Feb 06, 2006 ... ... Marshall, a social-studies teacher, asked the boys to describe the message of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 30, 2006The right to travel when and where we please will be severely eroded over the next 50 years as the shortage of cheap oil and environmental concerns force us to ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Feb 1, 2006"Your face really is your fortune," write Roger Dobson and Lois Rogers in The Sunday Times of London. "If you are married, of a ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Feb 2, 2006"The CIA World Factbook ranks the United States 48th in life expectancy [77.6 years in 2003] around the globe," says The Kansas City Star. ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 29, 2006By MICHAEL KESTERTON. Recently, an 84-year-old German man turned himself in to police. Helmut Bleibtreu had planted a firecracker ...

Social Studies Changing in Md. Schools
Washington Post, United States -
Jan 24, 2006... Those are among the provisions in a draft social studies curriculum submitted here Tuesday to the Maryland State Board of Education. ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 23, 2006"The company fitness centre, dandy perk that it is, can be a minefield of awkward situations, inelegant faux pas and professional claustrophobia," writes ...

Local student gets state social studies award
The Grand Rapids Press, MI -
Jan 29, 2006... The 16-year-old senior at Black River Public School will be honored Tuesday during the Michigan Council for the Social Studies annual meeting in Grand Rapids ...

Md. plans new social studies curriculum
Baltimore Sun, United States -
Jan 25, 2006Maryland's state school board is preparing to overhaul social studies curriculum, but a draft proposal is raising eyebrows among some as much for what it ...

McDougal Littell Sponsors Secondary Social Studies Teacher of the ...
Business Wire (press release), CA -
Jan 25, 2006... 2006--McDougal Littell, a division of Houghton Mifflin Company, announced today a renewed commitment to the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) to ...

Parish students converge on fair grounds for annual Social Studies ...
Leesville Daily Leader, LA -
Jan 24, 2006More than 102 students participated in the Vernon Parish Social Studies Fair in the Junior and Senior High Divisions on Friday at the Vernon Parish Fair Grounds ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 26, 2006"If you're in a relationship, beware of the month of January," writes Kate Shatzkin in The Baltimore Sun. "Along with unwanted pounds ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 25, 2006"Exotic perfumes and colognes have long played a central role in romance, but new research suggests that none may be as powerful as the scent of a woman herself ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 27, 2006Today is the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Mozart. His stream of masterpieces, writes Joshua Kosman in the San Francisco Chronicle, was ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 24, 2006"During the last 50 years, living conditions have improved for a majority of the planet's population: People live longer, are better nourished and wealthier ...

Westfield teacher named Social Studies Teacher of the Year
TimesCommunity.com, VA -
Jan 19, 2006Cynthia Szwajkowski, a government and history teacher at Westfield High School, is one of three teachers named Social Studies Teacher of the Year by the ...

Teacher welcomes challenge
Feb 06, 2006 ... WESTFIELD - Veteran middle school social studies teacher Margaret "Peggy" Sullivan says her current role as teacher in residence at Westfield State College is ...

Take a step across the racial divide
Feb 06, 2006 ... So she chose half a dozen of us from her social studies class — her all-white social studies class — to meet with some black students from the public high ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 12, 2006"Chimpanzees, which are believed to be humans' closest ancestral relative, grow at a steady rate," writes Amanda Onion of ABC News. ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 17, 2006By MICHAEL KESTERTON. "Only now are researchers beginning to understand why we yawn, when we yawn and why we yawn back," writes Dawn ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 18, 2006In the movie King Kong, the gorilla falls for the starlet Ann Darrow, protecting her from harm and stroking her hair as she sleeps. ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 11, 2006A steady climb in the number of telecommuters and "minipreneurs" (those with side jobs) has led to more couples sharing home office space. ...