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 ...

Clarion University honors athletes, veteran coach
Clarion University News, United States -
Mar 3, 2006... Andy Herbstritt, a junior secondary education/social studies major. ... Brad Roth, a junior secondary education/social studies major. ...

Take care of yourselves, college tells health graduates - 04.03.06
Mar 05, 2006 ... ... professionals should take time off to take care of themselves, the director of the National Institute of Health Studies and Social Studies, Monica Servina ...

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: ...

Bill would require lessons on Hmong
Mar 05, 2006 ... ... of the Sheboygan Hmong community are hoping to draw attention to a state Assembly bill that would require lessons in Hmong history in social studies classes in ...

Democracy depends on good educational system
Mar 05, 2006 ... ... She said the concept would be introduced into the social studies curriculum to make students more informed about their civic responsibilities and the need to ...

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 ...

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. ...

School district will preview new textbooks
Mar 05, 2006 ... With an upcoming change in all social studies textbooks in the Simi Valley Unified School District, officials will hold a community preview next week to allow ...

Applause: Sunday, March 5, 2006
Mar 05, 2006 ... ... Social studies fair winners at Youree: Sixth grade individual grand prize and first-place winner: sociology: Zhailen Levingston. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Local schools advance in Governor's Cup events
Mar 05, 2006 ... ... Social studies: First, Joshua Floyd (Cairo); second, Michael Simpson (East Heights); third, Alex Edwards (Niagara); fourth, Brennan Farley (Niagara); fifth ...

Students from tribe pay a visit to Capitol
Mar 05, 2006 ... ... A lesson in social studies and government. "Walking through Capitol Hill was the most memorable moment," said 16-year-old Delana Poncho. ...

Beloved Portage school teacher dies
Mar 05, 2006 ... ... I love kids," he said then. Fessler taught for 35 years, the majority of that time as an eighth-grade social studies teacher at Willowcreek Middle School. ...

Austin teacher, administrator inspired students, colleagues
Mar 05, 2006 ... ... school superintendent. She joined the district in 1958 and taught social studies and history at Austin and Reagan high schools. Her ...

Workshop on ‘Citizenship in Education’ concludes
Mar 05, 2006 ... ... Islam, Arabic, English, Social Studies, Social Skills, Science, Art and Maths were covered and different methodologies like discussion, debate, role playing ...

Opinion by Barry Rubin
Mar 05, 2006 ... ... The deal almost certainly will go through. Meanwhile, in the UAE, the American school was importing a sixth-grade social studies text called World Cultures. ...

Teachers Teaching Teachers
Rethinking Schools Online, WI -
Mar 3, 2006... In fact, more than 90 percent of PPS high school language arts teachers, as well as a number of ESL, special education, and social studies teachers, have ...