SocialStudies News

Grants will boost social studies
Philadelphia Daily News, PA -
Feb 23, 2006... higher education, business and civic communities yesterday announced $325,000 in grants to boost the Philadelphia School District's social-studies curriculum. ...

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: ...

Teacher honored by Freetown selectmen
Feb 27, 2006 ... FREETOWN -- Apponequet High School Social Studies Department Chairman Peter J. Homen often asks prospective teachers if they have a fire in their belly. ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

Best in the buzz
Feb 27, 2006 ... ... Not pictured is senior Bryce Regier. Regier is the group's social studies and history buff. Ginny Quaney tends to pick up language arts questions. ...

Distant option for cyber studies
Mayerthorpe Freelancer, Canada -
Feb 23, 2006Mayerthorpe Freelancer — Students in Mayerthorpe High School Social Studies 33 class are proving that a person can learn from the television. ...

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 ...

New leadership team's sharing ideas led to schedule change
Maryville Daily Times, TN -
Feb 26, 2006... The school will now have an eight-period day instead of seven periods to make room for daily social studies and physical education classes. ...

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 ...

School plan has minors picking majors
Feb 27, 2006 ... ... Students would still have to pass 24 credits to graduate. Fifteen credits would be in core requirements, including English, math, science and social studies. ...

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. ...

Retired JSU dean doing own research
Feb 27, 2006 ... ... Some obtained doctorates at Phillips' urging. "He taught me how to look at social studies from an inquiry standpoint, not just from names, facts or figures ...

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 ...

Textbook edits upset area Hindus Texts aren't making cut with ...
The Argus, CA -
Feb 26, 2006FREMONT — A subcommittee of the state Board of Education has released its proposed edits to sixth-grade history and social studies textbooks, and Hindu ...

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 -
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 ...

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 ...

Role model taught the power of faith and persistence
Feb 27, 2006 ... ... she have made of the current drive to make all state high schools offer four years of English and math, three years of science and social studies, two years of ...

He's working to better his adopted home county
Feb 27, 2006 ... ... girl he would marry. He began as a science and social studies teacher at a Talladega County Training School. During the two years ...