Recent Social Studies Headlines:
Odin High School Board Accepts Social Studies Teacher's ...
Mar 30, 2006 ... The Odin High School Board has accepted the resignation of social studies teacher Ken Milano effective at the end of the school year. ...
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Globe and Mail, Canada -
Mar 29, 2006This is the time of year to spring forward. They've already done it in parts of Europe. Recent notes about daylight-saving time: ...
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Globe and Mail, Canada -
Mar 24, 2006The most popular course at Harvard this semester teaches happiness, reports The Boston Globe. Positive Psychology, a class whose ...
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Gay City News -
Mar 16, 2006BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE. If you’ve heard about the new musical “Grey Gardens,” you may very well have heard it described as “camp ...
City of 10,000 schools celebrate 30 years
Mar 30, 2006 ... ... The elementary school offers language arts, mathematics, social studies, science, Chinese, art, virtue studies, meditation and physical education. ...
RHS academic team puts enjoys 'social' studies
Palladium-Item, IN -
Mar 21, 2006Top right: Amy Kelly, left, Spencer Gray, Stefan Roha and Charles Patterson study social studies together after school at Richmond High School on March 14. ...
Students get extra day of school to keep up with home
Mar 30, 2006 ... ... Rather, students learn social studies, history, literature and math from Japan's education system, with instruction in the Japanese language. ...
Test scores rise - at a cost
Mar 30, 2006 ... ... Instructional time is being diverted from subjects such as social studies, science and art to give low-performing students more exposure to English and math ...
right back at ya
Mar 30, 2006 ... ... surpassing graduation requirements. In contrast, Paly requires 40 credits of social studies (all four years) to graduate. This seems ...
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Globe and Mail, Canada -
Mar 10, 2006A school in India is reportedly teaching its students to use both their hands to write on different subjects simultaneously. All ...
SRI International and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ...
Mar 30, 2006 ... ... Holocaust Education." The study will be featured in Social Education, the membership journal for the National Council for the Social Studies (www.socialstudies ...
East Ramapo compromises on honors classes
The Journal News.com, NY -
Mar 29, 2006... the answer to concerns raised recently by parents who worry that some children aren't being challenged in their middle school English and social studies classes ...
LF schools mourn two
Mar 30, 2006 ... ... week. Lee Hochsprung, a sixth-grade social studies teacher at Little Falls Community Middle School, died Monday at home. Clarence ...
Longtime educator is valued for his experience
Mar 30, 2006 ... ... as the 1992 Teacher of the Year for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools and in 1989 received the Governor's Award for Excellence in teaching social studies. ...
City to Lose Leading Administrator to Superintendent's Job in Minn ...
Mar 30, 2006 ... ... determined, was working on several other major changes: a set of standardized tests that will be introduced next month; science and social studies standards to ...
CountryReports.org Indicated as a Social Studies Resource
PR Web (press release), WA -
Mar 16, 2006The magazine Social Education published by the National Council of Social Studies mentions CountryReports.org as a resource for teaching international issues ...
Readers sound off about candidates in local races
Mar 30, 2006 ... ... consist of a master’s degree in education from the University of Michigan, two years of experience in the classroom as a social studies teacher and three ...
Six local students going to state social studies competition
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA -
Mar 2, 2006Six Columbus students will compete in the State Social Studies Fair March 18 after winning events at the regional fair involving students from 54 counties. ...
HL Hunley discovery 'felt pretty good'
Mar 30, 2006 ... ... is, without a doubt, one of the greatest archeological finds that we've had in this state," said Katie Covington, an eighth-grade social studies teacher and ...
She has teaching down to an art
Mar 30, 2006 ... ... Indeed, the students in the classroom run an artistic gamut while preparing for the upcoming fiesta to celebrate the end of their Mexican unit in social studies ...
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Globe and Mail, Canada -
Mar 8, 2006"No other animal is as altruistic as humans are," writes Lauran Neergaard of The Associated Press. "We donate to charity, recycle ...
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Globe and Mail, Canada -
Mar 7, 2006"One of every five calories in the American diet is liquid," reports The Boston Globe. "The nation's single biggest 'food' is soda.". ...