SocialStudies News

Social studies moves to back of the class
Fayetteville Online, Fayetteville NC -
Feb 21, 2006By Miriam Haskell. A national movement to improve math and reading skills among children has put social studies lessons at risk. ...

Bear Creek students win at Social Studies Fair
The Citizen.com, GE -
Feb 20, 2006Congratulations to the Bear Creek Middle School students whose projects won at the Fulton County Social Studies Fair. The winners included: ...

New social studies curriculum adopted
Pioneer Press Online, IL -
Feb 16, 2006Citing a need to meet state standards, Elementary School District 15 is changing its social studies curriculum for the first time in more than 10 years. ...

My social studies report? Gov. Jeb Bush
Osceola News-Gazette, FL -
Feb 11, 2006By Deanna Sheffield News-Gazette Staff Writer. Alison Birks didn’t want to turn in just any social studies report. Instead the ...

PU holds teaching-related contests at Partap College
Feb 23, 2006 ... ... this competition. The contests were held in the subjects of English, Punjabi, Hindi, Social Studies, Economics and Commerce. The ...

Houston students in regional social studies fair
Macon Telegraph, GA -
Feb 11, 2006By Jake Jacobs. Ten students from Houston County will compete in the Southwest Regional Social Studies Fair today at Albany State University in Albany. ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Feb 13, 2006"It is difficult to compare national data on international trade, but Unesco has made a brave attempt in its report: International Flows of Selected Cultural ...

Urbandale school updates
Feb 23, 2006 ... ... Their focus for social studies is Martin Luther King Jr. ... Joel Rankin's social studies class reenacted George Washington crossing the Delaware River. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

No headline
Feb 23, 2006 ... ... DOVER - The next headmaster for Dover-Sherborn Middle School comes from a school in central Massachusetts, has a background teaching social studies and enjoys ...

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 ...

Hispanic high school dropout rate nearly doubles
Feb 23, 2006 ... ... students earn high school credits. ‘‘Teachers in ESOL teach a course, like biology or social studies... so that they are getting ...

Bulletin Board
Feb 23, 2006 ... ... This free one-on-one homework help is offered to students and parents with help in English, math, science, history, social studies and more. ...

‘Freshman Academy’ Approved For GHS
Feb 23, 2006 ... ... why.”. The GHSA will provide a separate learning environment in what is now the social studies hallway of the high school. There ...

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 ...

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 -
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 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 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 ...