Social Education articles from March 2008

Social Education archives from March 2008

Editor's notebook.(Editorial)
March 1, 2008... The contributors to this issue of Social Education investigate past milestones and current controversies that make excellent subjects for social studies classes. The creative teaching suggestions that accompany many of the articles bring even...

Silence on the Iraq War.(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2008... The 87th Annual NCSS Conference, Crossing Borders, Building Bridges, was well attended by the nation's leading social studies theorists, researchers, and teachers. The program offered opportunities to learn about recent research on historical...

Letter from a young boy following the Panay incident.(Teaching with Documents)
March 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On December 22, 1937, a Japanese boy from the Shin Kozen Primary School delivered a letter and a [yen] 2.00 donation to the American consulate in Nagasaki, Japan. His letter, originally written in Japanese, was...

Climate change draws world attention: the nobel peace prize goes to Gore and IPCC.(Albert Arnold Gore Jr. and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change )
March 1, 2008... "The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and...

The causes of poverty: thinking critically about a key economic issue.(Essay)
March 1, 2008... From the first day of my economics course, I work hard to explain to students what they are not going to learn about in my class. There will not be a stock-market competition; we will not learn how to read a balance sheet; and we will not start...

Why they just can't print more: money supply and prices.
March 1, 2008... Students regularly ask me, "Why can't the government just print more money?" Typically they are seeking a simple solution to a complex problem like the national debt, or they just want the government to make us all rich the easy way, by handing...

Sliding U.S. dollar packs a wallop to wallets worldwide.
March 1, 2008... This article, class activity, and student worksheet are provided by PBS NewsHour Extra, which offers features, lesson plans and teacher resources on a wide variety of contemporary topics at www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/ The dollar,...

Cross-state variation in economics content standards in the primary grades.
March 1, 2008... The Goals 2000 Educate America Act of 1994 included economics among the nine core subject areas that were targeted for the development of content standards. A new set of voluntary national content standards in economics, published in 1997,...

A presidential election simulation: creating a school-wide interdisciplinary program.
March 1, 2008... In 1980, several colleagues and I at New Hampshire's Littleton High School crafted a plan to raise political awareness among our students and to get them to become more involved in the presidential election. For several months after school, we...

You should have the body: understanding habeas corpus.
March 1, 2008... English legal commentator William Blackstone described the writ of habeas corpus as a second Magna Carta, and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall called it the "great writ." It has been part of the Anglo-American common law tradition...

What I learned at the NCSS Annual Meeting--2007 edition.(Surfing the Net)(National Council for the Social Studies)(Conference notes)
March 1, 2008... A few months ago, I wrote a column titled "What I learned at the NCSS Annual Meeting." It was based on the Internet-oriented materials and resources featured at the 2006 NCSS convention in Washington, D.C. I received many e-mails from readers...