SocialStudies News

Desert Vista High teacher puts social conscience in social studies
Arizona Republic, AZ -
Feb 6, 2006Community service, she says, is an essential part of social studies and she wants students to understand their moral obligation to help those in need. ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Feb 7, 2006Blue light makes people alert at night, according to a small US study. When 16 volunteers were exposed to short-wavelength light ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Feb 6, 2006More Canadians are interested in the Canadian Football League than the National Football League, according to a nationwide survey by sociologist Reginald Bibby ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEWS: Local/Regional
Feb 11, 2006 ... ... proposed in January would require Michigan students to complete 18 credits - within the areas of English language arts, math, social studies, science, health ...

Central Texas Woman Named To Special Education Advisory Committee
Feb 11, 2006 ... ... Haines has 29 years of teaching experience in the Richardson ISD, where she was chair of the social studies department from 1980-2000. ...

School committee discusses facilities
Feb 11, 2006 ... ... for all languages, maintain academic rigor, challenge all students, and connect foreign language studies with other disciplines such as social studies and art ...

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 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 ...

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
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 ...

New requirements for future grads
Feb 11, 2006 ... ... The policy would continue to require four years of English, three years of Social Studies, and two years of a foreign language for those students planning on ...

Social Clubs induct new members
Ouachita Baptist University News, AR -
Feb 7, 2006... Cody Walker, a freshman pre-physical therapy/athletic training education major from Mountain Home; and Luiz King, a freshman social studies major from ...

Forgetting the Child - the Heart of the Matter
Feb 11, 2006 ... ... Even outside of History or Social Studies classes, I was often teased and asked “What tribe I’m from?” Occasionally, I was told to “go back to my ...

Schools adjust cirriculum to meet new state requirements
Feb 11, 2006 ... ... and finance courses, students will be required to earn an extra communications arts credit, as well as single credits in mathematics, science and social studies ...

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
Feb 11, 2006 ... n's chief laughter instructor, reports USA Today. The certified laughter ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Racial gap big in test data
Feb 11, 2006 ... ... The Iowa Tests show how Utah students achieve next to those in a nationally representative student group in reading, language, math, social studies and science ...

African-American achievers honored
Feb 11, 2006 ... ... "He was a role model for many of us," said Richardson, who worked in Edison schools as a special education teacher, social studies teacher, counselor, vice ...

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 ...