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 who said district violated First Amendment rights is ...
Feb 28, 2006 ... A former social studies teacher who said his First Amendment rights were violated has received a $396,000 jury award. Curtis Sherrod ...

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. ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Making Peace for One Another
Feb 28, 2006 ... ... issues, but recently we had some people accusing some girls who are Wiccans of casting spells on them," said Dennis O'Buck, a social studies teacher at Osbourn ...

DC-G teachers, students jump into Olympic spirit
Feb 28, 2006 ... ... Lynnette Yossi, an English and social studies teacher, said the teachers wanted to inspire students to watch the winter Olympics and learn from the games. ...

Ex-Suncoast teacher wins lawsuit over firing
Feb 28, 2006 ... A jury has awarded $396,000 to a social studies teacher who claimed he was fired for criticizing the school district's treatment of African-American issues in ...

College NotesPublished: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 -- The Truth ...
Feb 28, 2006 ... ... list at Spring Arbor University. Bachman is a freshman majoring in social studies. FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- The following students have ...

Examinees, keep 45 mins extra for travel
Feb 28, 2006 ... ... Before Bush leaves on March 4, Class X students appearing for social studies and home science papers and Class XII students appearing for history, biotech ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Working with at-risk kids means middle-of-night calls
Feb 28, 2006 ... CORONA - Joseph Soto, a social studies teacher at Orange Grove High School in Corona, goes many extra miles -- or is that extra minutes? -- for his pupils. ...