Social Education articles from March 2009

Social Education archives from March 2009

Editor's notebook.
March 1, 2009... At a time of financial crisis and nationwide recession, the need to formulate effective economic policies is once again at the forefront of public debate. This issue's special section on economic education, edited by Mark C. Schug and William...

Frederick Douglass and John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2009... The debate over slavery was one of the defining issues in the United States from the writing of the Declaration of Independence through the Civil War. In 1773, Patrick Henry, best known for coining the phrase "Give me liberty or give me death"...

How do tax laws reflect American values?(Looking at the Law)(Tiffany Willey)(Interview)
March 1, 2009... The American tax system is complicated and often confusing. Federal, state, and local governments all hold powers of taxation fundamental to their operation, producing sources of revenue for government services. There are many different types...

The crash of 2008: causes and lessons to be learned.(Special Section)
March 1, 2009... The headlines of 2008 were dominated by falling housing prices, rising default and foreclosure rates, failure of large investment banks, and huge bailouts arranged by both the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury. The wealth of many Americans...

Keynesian, monetarist and supply-side policies: an old debate gets new life.(Special Section)(Report)
March 1, 2009... Debates over how to promote a healthy economy are pervasive once more, after decades when it seemed such debates had been put to rest. The market meltdown of 2008 ended a long string of years in which monetary policy reigned supreme. Monetary...

Are High School Economics teachers the same as other social studies teachers? The results of a national survey.(Special Section)(Survey)
March 1, 2009... Economics in the Curriculum and Economics Teachers Economics has assumed an important role in the social studies curriculum. In a 2007 survey, the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) reported the following: (1) * Economics is...

Teaching ethics to high school students: virtue meets economics.(Teaching the Ethical Foundations of Economics)
March 1, 2009... When highly visible lapses in ethics occur, education gets some of the blame. Principals in the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis and the Enron scandal had been educated at Harvard and other elite business schools, where professional and moral...

Is free trade out of date?(Essay)
March 1, 2009... During the recent presidential campaign, some prominent politicians called for a "time out" in negotiating new agreements to expand international trade, and others wanted to reduce it by canceling existing trade agreements. The stated concern...

Advanced placement economics improves both merit and equity.(Report)
March 1, 2009... In 1989, the microeconomics and macroeconomics examinations debuted on the Advanced Placement scene. At that time, many professors of economics were skeptical that college freshmen had the skills and maturity to understand the concepts in...

Do businesses have a social responsibility? The students debate whether a business best serves society's interests by maximizing profits or by pursuing policies it believes promote social justice, the environment and other causes.(LESSON)
March 1, 2009... Overview Economics Many workers are employees of companies. These workers agree to do what the companies' owners tell them to do. In return, the companies pay the employees a wage or salary. This relationship, or contract, is an...

Two views on the social responsibility of business.(Handout)(excerpts from 'The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits' and 'Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business: Putting Customers Ahead of Investors' )(Excerpt)
March 1, 2009... Directions: Read the two articles on the social responsibility of business. Then write the answers to the questions. Milton Friedman won the Nobel Prize in economic sciences in 1976. John Mackey is co-founder and chief executive officer of...

Teaching students financial literacy using the internet.(Surfing the Net)(Column)
March 1, 2009... This issue annually focuses on economics and economics education--what an important and interesting time for this topic. Here we are, in the midst of the biggest and scariest economic crisis since the Great Depression. I'm older than most of...

Trend alert: a history teacher's guide to using podcasts in the classroom.
March 1, 2009... Often as educators we feel like we are in the fashion industry as we try and keep pace with latest "it" in technology--before we are even accustomed to the PowerPoint line, the seasons change and we are expected to be decked out in moviemaking....