Social Education articles from March 2005

Social Education archives from March 2005

Auschwitz: inside the Nazi state.(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... The PBS Auschwitz unit plan insert in the November/December 2004 issue of SOCIAL EDUCATION is a commendable contribution to Holocaust teaching. In preparing to use such a unit, teachers might consider the following three questions dealing with...

Editor's notebook.
March 1, 2005... THERE HAS BEEN a transformation of the American financial system over the past generation, which has made it imperative for young people to have new kinds of knowledge and analytical skills that enable them to make the right financial...

The importance of financial education today.(Financial Education)
March 1, 2005... Trends in Consumer Finances Today's financial world is highly complex as compared with that of a generation ago. Twenty-five years ago, knowing how to maintain a checking and savings account at a local financial institution was sufficient...

The interdependence of economic and personal finance education.(Financial Education)
March 1, 2005... IN AN INCREASINGLY COMPLEX financial world, personal finance education is more important today than ever. Nevertheless, the number of states incorporating personal finance concepts into their academic standards is not rising significantly, and...

The stock market crashes of 1929 and 1987: linking history and personal finance education.(Financial Education)
March 1, 2005... IT IS GREAT TO BE A TEACHER of personal finance economics, in part because the content is clearly relevant to students. Students don't require a lot of convincing to buy into the idea that they should learn to make good decisions directly...

Teachers can be millionaires, too: two economic educators outline strategies for wealth building.(Financial Education)
March 1, 2005... TEACHERS OFTEN REGARD themselves as unlikely candidates for financial success, chiefly because they earn low starting salaries. But people of modest means can build wealth over time if they adhere to certain simple strategies. Our goal here is...

Credit: your best friend or your worst enemy?
March 1, 2005... This lesson plan originally appeared in learning, earning and investing, a 2004 publication of the National Council on Economic Education. IN THIS LESSON, students do an exercise that shows how credit can be their worst enemy. They learn...

What are mutual funds?(lesson plans)
March 1, 2005... This lesson plan originally appeared in Learning, Earning and Investing, a 2004 publication of the National Council on Economic Education. IN THIS LESSON, students form class investment clubs that work much in the way mutual funds do. They...

Teaching about saving and investing in the elementary and middle school grades.(Financial Education)
March 1, 2005... FOR SEVERAL YEARS advocacy groups have recognized the need to strengthen financial education in the K-12 schools. Current statistics support their concerns. Financial illiteracy in the United States is astoundingly high. From 1992 to 2000,...

Teaching consumer literacy with the internet.(Surfing the Net)
March 1, 2005... ARE YOU READY to hear about another "gap" between U.S. education and education in other nations? While surfing the internet for the sites mentioned in this column, I found out that nations such as Finland, Thailand, Australia, Wales, and...

Teaching social studies on a shoestring budget.
March 1, 2005... TEACHING SOCIAL STUDIES IS MY PASSION. My enthusiasm began in 1996 when I took a summer workshop sponsored by the National Geographic Society and the Louisiana Geography Education Alliance. There I learned how to teach standards-based, hands-on...

Enemy combatants and the courts.(Looking at the Law)
March 1, 2005... For most of human history, prisoners of war, including women, children, and elders, were killed, tortured, enslaved, or held for ransom. The prisoners' helplessness allowed the captors to indulge the darkest human fantasies. Cuneiform tablets...

The World Court in Action: Judging Among the Nations.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... THE WORLD COURT IN ACTION: JUDGING AMONG THE NATIONS. by Howard N. Meyer New York: Rewman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002 The title The World Court inaction offers a powerful clue to the author's intentions: Howard Meyer believes in this...