Social Education articles from January 2002

Social Education archives from January 2002

Teaching about tragedy. (Letters).
January 1, 2002... On September 11, we've been told, "everything changed." Yet so far, Social Education has shown little awareness of this. I refer to the October issue's special section on September 11. In reading the section, I was reminded of those cartoons...

Editor's notebook.
January 1, 2002... MANY AMERICANS, if asked what the United States symbolizes for the word, think first of political freedom and civic values, second of exceptional economic prowess and prosperity, and only then of military power. In many overseas countries,...

2001 NCSS Presidential Address: while I was sleeping in my bed ... things were happening in this world that directly concerned me--nobody asked me, [nobody] consulted me--they just went out and did things--and changed my life [forever]. (NCSS Notebook).
January 1, 2002... THE HORRIFIC EVENTS of September 11th have made a profound impression on us not only as a nation, but also as individuals both professionally and personally. These events and their aftermath have touched the lives of millions, one at a time....

The women of Afghanistan. (In Focus).
January 1, 2002... FROM THE COVER OF TIME magazine to the top stories on CNN and other networks, Afghan women have caused a stir in the U.S. media. The White House, too, has declared them a "top priority," signaled by Laura Bush's mid-November radio address in...

Restoring the rights of Afghan women. (In Focus).(Interview)
January 1, 2002... An Interview with Nasrine Abou-Bakre Gross When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, many Afghan women living outside their country took part in the campaign to restore women's rights. Nasrine Abou-Bakre Gross, an Afghan American living in the...

A thoughtful patriotism. (In Focus).
January 1, 2002... ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, the United States was attacked. The toll of deaths was staggering at the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the rural landscape of western Pennsylvania. September 11 may be...

Repatriating Afghan refugees. (In Focus).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... IF THE 21-YEAR-LONG CIVIL WAR does end in Afghanistan, the return and reintegration of over 3.5 million Afghan refugees and internally displaced people will be crucial to building long-term peace in Afghanistan and stability in Central Asia....

Timeline: September 11 and its aftermath: the war in Afghanistan until December 31, 2001.
January 1, 2002... SEPTEMBER 11. Terrorists hijack 4 jetliners. Two crash into the World Trade Center in New York City; one hits the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia; and one crashes in rural Pennsylvania as passengers thwart terrorists. Thousands are killed....

Forging a new Afghanistan.
January 1, 2002... An Interim Government On December 22, 2001, an interim government, led by Hamid Karzai, officially became the government of Afghanistan. A 30-member executive council will role the country for the next six months. Some members of the...

Cases, controversy, and the court: teaching about the Supreme Court.
January 1, 2002... Alexis de Tocqueville presaged the importance of courts when he wrote that "there is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one." But even this famous French visitor did not predicts...

"The cult of the robe": the U.S. Supreme Court in the American mind. (Cases, Controversy, and the Court).
January 1, 2002... IF SOME AMERICANS lapsed into thinking that the Supreme Court of the United States was becoming irrelevant, the historic controversy over Election 2000 disabused them of that misconception. With the number of cases decided by flail opinion now...

The Rehnquist court. (Cases, Controversy, and the Court).
January 1, 2002... WILLIAM REHNQUIST became Chief Justice in 1986, replacing Warren Burger, who had served in that role since 1969. Concurrent with Rehnquist's elevation to Chief from his prior position as Associate Justice, Antonin Scalia joined the Court. A...

Supreme Court voting patterns 1994-2001. (Cases, Controversy, and the Court).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... This chart shows how the current Supreme Court justices voted on selected 5-4 and 6-3 decisions. Justices are arranged roughly from the most liberal to the most conservative, showing the Court's impact over a six-year period, the right-left...

Using moot courts in the classroom. (Cases, Controversy, and the Court).
January 1, 2002... IN THE LAST TWENTY-FIVE years, mock trials have become a staple of instruction in law, government, and civics classes. Mock trials are an exciting way to teach trial court procedures and to develop a wide range of skills. They also provide a...

The road to the court. (Cases, Controversy, and the Court).
January 1, 2002... TEXTBOOK COVERAGE of U.S. Supreme Court decisions tends to focus almost exclusively on the decision in specific cases. There is seldom consideration of the factual settings in which those cases arose or the lower court decisions that led to the...

The United States Supreme Court and the World Wide Web. (Cases, Controversy, and the Court).
January 1, 2002... HOW CAN a person get a copy of a recent United States Supreme Court opinion, the briefs that were submitted to the Court, or a recording--at least a transcript--of the oral arguments? Back in the early 1990s--that is, before the days of the...

Which cases should we teach. (Cases, Controversy, and the Court).
January 1, 2002... IN 1792, the new Supreme Court of the United States decided its first case. Since then, the Court has decided thousands of cases. This number presents a selection problem for teachers interested in including Supreme Court cases in their...

Controversial dimensions of U.S. Supreme Court cases. (Cases, Controversy, and the Court).
January 1, 2002... THE RECENT United States Supreme Court decision in the case of Bush v. Gore unleashed a torrent of controversy. Polls released shortly after the case was announced showed a deep division in public opinion: Republicans overwhelmingly supported...

Supreme Court coverage: a lawyer arguing a case before the U.S. Supreme Court has only thirty minutes to focus attention on the nine justices on the bench. (Cases, Controversy, and the Court).
January 1, 2002... But if the attorney momentarily glances to the left, he or she will spot a dozen or so journalists in the two rows of seats reserved for the press. If it's a high profile case-Bush v. Gore comes to mind-there might be as many as one hundred or...

Teaching Brown v. Board of Education. (Cases, Controversy, and the Court).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... ASK MOST PEOPLE in the United States to cite a U.S. Supreme Court case that they know something about, and the first, perhaps the only, case they will mention is Brown v. Board of Education. (1) This isn't surprising. Brown is not just a...

Making a case for the Case Study Method. (Case, Controversy, and the Court).
January 1, 2002... WHAT DO law school students and students in a high school law class have in common? Both are asked to "think like lawyers," to do the intellectual work of analyzing cases, constructing persuasive arguments, and applying legal principles to new...

Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy.
January 1, 2002... BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION: A CIVIL RIGHTS MILESTONE AND ITS TROUBLED LEGACY By James T. Patterson New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 285 pp. Recently, the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) launched a $3 million...

Should 9-11 change K-12? (Lookout Point).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... In our rapidly changing world, students not only want to know "Where in World is Carmen Santiago?" but also where Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and the other "-stans" are. Could world studies compete with the World Series for students' attention...

The WPA slave narratives: teaching with oral histories.(Works Progress Administration)
January 1, 2002... Standardized test questions for each social studies discipline are being debated and instituted in many states. Teachers who have developed successful lessons that delve deeply into a topic fear that teaching to "benchmarks" will force such...

Going places: geography on the Internet.
January 1, 2002... Do you still have wall maps hanging in your classroom showing the Soviet Union, East and West Germany, and the "Ivory Coast" as modern countries? For today's social studies teacher, online map sources and services are an incredibly valuable,...

Teaching with the use of current issues: the Canadian model.
January 1, 2002... Introduction Issues-centered lessons can present social questions and problems that are highly relevant to students' present experiences and hopes for the future. Thus issues-centered lessons are inherently interesting. (1) We believe...

Q&A about slavery in the United States: see if you can find the answers to the four questions below by searching in books in the library. A few sources are cited below, but many other books on slavery will contain the answers.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... (1.) In 1839, the captives aboard the slave ship Amistad mutinied, killing the captain and taking control of the ship. Under the leadership of Sengbe Pieh, the mutineers attempted to sail the ship to Africa, where they had formerly been flee...