SocialStudies 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 16, 2006On this date in 1942, the Duke of Connaught died. He was Governor-General of Canada in 1911-16. Also on Jan. 16, 1957, the Earl of Athlone died. ...

Southfield second-graders combine science, social studies with ...
Shreveport Times, LA -
Jan 15, 2006Abdal Ibrahim, 7, illuminates his project, a McDonald’s replica, recently at Southfield School in Shreveport. Ibrahim and other ...

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

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 13, 2006"As late as the 19th century, old shoes were left on the roofs of houses for good luck," writes Judie Schwartz in The Rocky Mountain (Colo.) News. ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 5, 2006Women are four times more likely to suffer from seasonal affective disorder (SAD) than men, and the onset of the condition typically occurs after age 20 ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 2, 2006"For legitimate physical reasons, some women find themselves shivering while their male partners cast withering looks," writes Natalie Pompilio in The ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 9, 2006This is the Year of African Languages, which seeks to promote the use of mother tongues, says BBC News On-line, but the continent's indigenous languages are ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 6, 2006"Sometimes we program ourselves for the Monday blahs," says Dr. Wanda Bethea a psychologist in Melbourne, Fla. "And we do the same ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 10, 2006"When the first alarm clock with a snooze button made its debut in 1956," writes William Weir in The Hartford (Conn.) Courant, "General Electric-Telechron ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 4, 2006Regular players at his Friday night, low-stakes poker games tell him that learning poker has helped them negotiate raises and sell houses at inflated prices ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Dec 23, 2005It is bad luck to take mistletoe down; it should only be replaced the following Christmas. Holly is used as a protection against witches and thunder. ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Dec 21, 2005"Canadian Blood Services recently launched its winter campaign, Brighten a Life," says a press release. "As part of this campaign ...

Lagergren ’85 is Holocaust Museum Fellow
Jan 18, 2006 ... ... For the past 10 of his 21 years at Central Public Schools in Norwood Young America, Lagergren has taught a senior social studies interdisciplinary course in ...

Student of the Month
Jan 18, 2006 ... ... 2005. Hylka is a sophomore religion teacher and Hostert is a social studies teacher and the Social Studies department chair. Six ...

School days may get longer in Orange
Jan 18, 2006 ... ... And the Orange district this year required freshmen to take a social-studies course designed to encourage higher-level reading. ...

A QUICK SPIN AROUND THE STATE HOUSE
Jan 18, 2006 ... ... area educators and gave a unanimous voice-vote endorsement to legislation that reduces the emphasis on standardized tests in social studies and science in ...

AFL-CIO leader retires
Jan 18, 2006 ... ... "He is a true labor pioneer.". Cole began his career as a high school teacher at the Lewiston-Porter Senior High, where he taught social studies for 23 years. ...

Schoolteachers Attend Seminar On Holocaust
Jan 18, 2006 ... ... Sixty high school social studies teachers yesterday attended a day-long seminar on the Holocaust, days after Iran announced it would hold a conference to ...

SCHOOL NOTES
Jan 18, 2006 ... ... Parents of 7th- and 8th-graders may provide feedback on the new social studies textbook America: History of Our Nation available in the district's four junior ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Dec 26, 2005"Recent studies on leadership in cows . . . suggest that intelligence, inquisitiveness, confidence, experience and good social skills ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Dec 30, 2005"The Hollywood hero races his convertible down the boulevard for a date he can't miss. It might be with a lover or a terrorist or ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Jan 1, 2006"On Jan. 29 we bid farewell to the dynamic, fast-talking Rooster and welcome the Year of the Dog," says the Australian women's magazine Good Medicine. ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Dec 18, 2005Tigers disappeared from Bali in the 1940s, from Afghanistan in the 1970s and from Java in the 1980s, reports The Independent on Sunday. ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Dec 27, 2005One surprising trend for 2006, says The Trend Research Institute, is that people are looking back in time for inspiration. It's ...

SOCIAL STUDIES
Globe and Mail, Canada -
Dec 20, 2005Almost half of marriage proposals occur between November and February -- with December the most likely time to get engaged, according to Wedding Channel.com. ...