Social Education articles from March 2006

Social Education archives from March 2006

The future of our students is tied.
March 1, 2006... The future of our students is tied to the growth of our economy, so it is essential for them to understand the economic forces that will influence their lives. Yet bringing the complexities of economics to the classroom requires a great deal of...

The Drawbacks of Wikipedia.(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2006... In your October 2005 issue of Social Education, I noticed in the article "Teaching about Kids in History Using the Internet" that one of the recommended sites is Wikipedia (en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction). I realize that...

Past peace prize winners.(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2006... A side bar on past peace prize winners that accompanied the article "Nobel Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei: Preventing Nuclear Proliferation Peacefully" [Social Education, January/February 2006] omitted the name of Phillip John Noel-Baker. Lord...

The Fed's year of transition.(Federal Reserve System)
March 1, 2006... Many Americans regard the chairman of the Federal Reserve System as holding one of the nation's most powerful jobs, second only to the president's. The influence of the Fed chairman stretches beyond the borders of the United States and effects...

Money panics and the establishment of the Federal Reserve System.(LESSON)
March 1, 2006... DESCRIPTION Several students perform a play that illustrates how an unregulated banking system contributed to a number of severe money panics in the late nineteenth century. The students then read a passage about the establishment of the...

Strong numbers and weak perceptions: understanding the "Rodney Dangerfield economy".
March 1, 2006... Ordinary citizens, politicians, and economists alike regularly ask the question, "How is the economy doing?" With a highly polarized electorate and media to match, it has become harder to get an honest answer. Social educators should understand...

Globalization and foreign investment.(LESSON)
March 1, 2006... This lesson plan is divided into two activities. The Introductory Discussion provides context and vocabulary for the lesson and Activity i provides an application activity for extension of the concepts learned in the lesson. Activity 2 is...

Teaching about energy issues and energy independence using the Internet.(Surfing the Net)
March 1, 2006... Energy issues have moved up the public agenda in recent decades, and were highlighted in President Bush's State of the Union address when he declared, "America is addicted to oil...." Later in the speech, he pledged to "replace more than 75...

Divide and conquer: detecting patterns that explain the big picture.
March 1, 2006... Alecia Ford had a problem that teachers everywhere face more and more frequently with the predominance of standardized testing--too much world history to teach in too little time. How could she help her sixth-grade students develop an in-depth...

Executive power in an age of terror.(Looking at the Law)
March 1, 2006... One week after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Congress passed an Authorization for the Use of Military Force (The Authorization) that authorized the president ... to use all necessary and appropriate force against those...

From the Classroom to the Battlefield: a National Guardsman talks about his experience in Iraq.
March 1, 2006... Many American high school students from lower socio-economic backgrounds see military service as a vehicle for advancement. Various branches of the Armed Forces have consistently provided underprivileged youths enlisting in the military with a...

Iraq after the December 2005 election: social education staff.
March 1, 2006... In an article in 2004 on Islamist movements in Iraq, Social Education pointed out that Iraq might be headed toward a juncture from which "one road leads to sectarian and ethnic strife and the other to the establishment of a new Islamic republic...