Social Education articles from January 2006

Social Education archives from January 2006

The focus of the recent.(Social Studies: The Heart of the Curriculum)(Editorial)
January 1, 2006... The focus of the recent NCSS annual meeting in Kansas City was "Social Studies: The Heart of the Curriculum." That theme highlighted the reality that education cannot be reduced to the teaching of reading, writing, math and science. The most...

Slips of the pen corrections.(Correction notice)
January 1, 2006... In the lesson plan, "No Time for Tea" [Social Education, September 2005], the Boston Tea Party was incorrectly set in November of 1773. In fact, it took place in December of that year. In the column on "Teaching about Kids in History Using...

Who's the boss?(balance of power, United States government)
January 1, 2006... Shortly after my article titled "Making the Abstract Concrete" appeared in the November/December 2005 issue of Social Education, I received a question via e-mail from a teacher asking about one of the documents featured in the...

Social studies: the heart of the curriculum.(NCSS Notebook)(National Council for the Social Studies)
January 1, 2006... Kansas City is famous for barbecue. Where I grew up, in New York City, barbecue is not a food. We barbecue hot dogs or hamburgers. We do this on the barbecue, which is a grill, in the backyard. However, because I am a vegetarian, on my barbecue...

Should intelligent design be taught in social studies courses?(Democracy Education)
January 1, 2006... "Part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought." --President Bush, August 1, 2005. "[He] doesn't understand that one is a religious viewpoint and one is a scientific viewpoint." --Barry Lynn, Americans...

Nobel Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei: preventing nuclear proliferation peacefully.
January 1, 2006... International nuclear arms control efforts have suffered numerous setbacks in recent years. The new emphasis of certain nations on a right to retain and expand nuclear arsenals (essentially abrogating almost all nuclear arms control agreements...

The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.(Teaching With Documents)
January 1, 2006... On March 3, 1865, Congress established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedmen's Bureau) within the War Department of the federal government (13 Stat. 507). Two months later, President Andrew Johnson appointed Major...

Selecting Supreme Court justices: a dialogue.(Looking at the Law)
January 1, 2006... Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's announcement of her plans to retire from the Supreme Court, followed shortly by the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, ended 11 years of stability in the Court's membership. This fall, a new chief justice,...

Teaching about international issues, geography, and multiple points of view using the Internet.(Surfing the Net)
January 1, 2006... In the summer of 1953, when I turned 14, I became a newspaper delivery boy for the Paducah Sun-Democrat. When I got my first paycheck, I went to Johnson's Radio Shop and negotiated an arrangement to buy a $59.95 Hallicrafters shortwave radio. I...

Seeking truth in the social studies classroom: media literacy, critical thinking and teaching about the Middle East.
January 1, 2006... In June 2003, I gave my tenth grade students the New York State Regents Exam in Global Studies for the first time in 25 years. During the previous decade, my small alternative school in Ithaca, New York, had received a waiver and been allowed...

"Holocaust fatigue" in teaching today.(Research and Practice)
January 1, 2006... "Research & Practice," established early in 2001, features educational research that is directly relevant to the work of classroom teachers. Here, I invited Simone Schweber to examine teaching and learning about the Holocaust in light of...

Educating students about the Holocaust: a survey of teaching practices.
January 1, 2006... More than half a century has passed since the horrific events of the Holocaust took place, but images of the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany are no less shocking than they were 60 years...