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. ...

Next Student Council elections by voting booth?
Mar 01, 2006 ... At the end of last year, Social Studies Department Instructional Supervisor Eric Bloom recommended implementing either online voting through the InClass ...

Exam time: ‘I am calm, parents creating tension’
Mar 01, 2006 ... ... paper. Class 10 students have a Social Studies exam on Thursday; their exams draw to a close on March 27 with the English paper. ...

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. ...

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: ...

Testing times: CBSE exams begin
Mar 01, 2006 ... ... Class X students can expect the changes in their Math, Social Studies and Science question papers and the Class XII students will encounter easier and ...

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 ...

That's Entertainment: Arthur Schwartz Songs Will Echo at New-York ...
Mar 01, 2006 ... ... American Musicals Project (AMP) is billed as "a Social Studies and English Language Arts curriculum program developed in collaboration between the New-York ...

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 ...

Pleasanton 'Leadership Academy" class brings civics to life
Mar 01, 2006 ... ... "We're going to list your leadership group as a 'best practice' in the state of California," said O'Connell, himself a former social studies teacher. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What's happening
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