SocialStudies News

Jury awards $396,000 to fired social studies teacher
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL -
Feb 25, 2006A fired social studies teacher on Friday won a $396,000 federal court jury verdict against the Palm Beach County School District in a case that spotlighted a ...

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. ...

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. ...

Exhibit puts history on display
Mar 03, 2006 ... ... Class by social studies class, students sat in the middle of the room surrounded by hundreds of pieces of memorabilia, books, posters, programs, artifacts ...

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: ...

Class X boards: One down, all’s well
Mar 03, 2006 ... ... the worst. And then Lady Luck smiled and the students emerged ‘victorious’ after writing their social studies exam well. The ...

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 ...

City school staff changes looming
Mar 03, 2006 ... ... An addition will be a social studies teacher at Rutland High School to allow one of the school's smallest departments to offer more electives, as well as ...

House toughens standards for graduation
Mar 03, 2006 ... By 2010, requirements will include credits in math, English, science, social studies, gym, arts. Here's how Metro Detroit members ...

HomeRoom: News and events from Acadiana schools
Mar 03, 2006 ... ... Myrtle Place Elementary named its winners for social studies fair. These students will represent Lafayette Parish at the regional ...

Unprofessional Conduct
Mar 03, 2006 ... My students know – generally – what my politics are, because as a social studies teacher I sometimes discuss current events along with history. ...

Hindu textbook edits sent to state trustees
Mar 03, 2006 ... ... what is written in sixth-grade textbooks, a special commission submitted their recommendations on the controversial Hindu portion of the social studies text to ...

High marks for New York schools
Mar 03, 2006 ... ... "When it comes to college preparation in many ways that's what our curriculum is geared toward," said Robert Steel, chair of the social studies department at ...

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 -
Feb 7, 2006Blue light makes people alert at night, according to a small US study. When 16 volunteers were exposed to short-wavelength light ...

Honors Students Raise the Bar in 'Regular' Courses
Mar 03, 2006 ... ... 9]. Critical thinking skills and the development of those skills in a social studies class are skills that will benefit a student well after high school. ...

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 -
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 ...

Loving schools hold rally to motivate students
Mar 03, 2006 ... ... Seventh-grader Linsey Ogden chose to pour her slime over the head of social studies teacher Ben Bradley. "It was fun," she said later. ...

Rigorous course work offered
Mar 03, 2006 ... ... In addition to completing coursework in traditional areas such as math, science, social studies and English, students must be fluent in a second language by ...