Social Education articles from May 2004

Social Education archives from May 2004

Editor's notebook.(Editorial)
May 1, 2004... It is one of our traditions that the May-June issue of SOCIAL EDUCATION, the last of the school year, has a literary and cultural focus. In its center is our annual pull-out presenting the Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People,...

1863 letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson about Walt Whitman.(Teaching with Document)
May 1, 2004... Biographers have called Walt Whitman "America's most influential and innovative poet" and some have even called him "the greatest of all American poets." But in the winter of 1862-63, even as he was gaining a reputation as a talented poet,...

Literature that promotes justice for all: justice is indiscriminately due to all, without regard to numbers, wealth, or rank.(1)
May 1, 2004... WITH GREAT INTEREST, I read the afterward of the re-released biography Farewell to Manzanar, just months after September 11, 2001. The authors comment that these attacks, seen by some as the Pearl Harbor of the twenty-first century, give...

Shirin Ebadi: a Muslim woman Nobel Peace laureate.
May 1, 2004... The Nobel Peace Prize is recognized as one of the most prestigious global awards. Although the prize is worth $1.32 million, its symbolic value and moral significance is priceless. Each year the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which is appointed by...

Carter G. Woodson: book awards.(Celebrate Excellence)
May 1, 2004... NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES is pleased to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Carter G. Woodson Book Awards. This award, established in 1973 by an NCSS committee on racism and social justice, has honored children's books that...

Notable social studies trade books for young people 2004.
May 1, 2004... ABOUT THE LIST AND CRITERIA FOR SELECTION The books that appear in this annotated book list were evaluated and selected by a Book Review Committee appointed by National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and assembled in cooperation with...

Elementary students in substantive culture learning.(Elementary Education)
May 1, 2004... In today's culturally diverse and interconnected world, elementary teachers have a primary responsibility for opening students' eyes to the world and its peoples. Without understanding diverse cultures locally and globally, young people cannot...

Putting beliefs on trial: laws of cultural orthodoxy and dissent.(Looking at the Law)
May 1, 2004... Images of heretics burning at the stake or of traitors being drawn, hanged, and quartered for disloyalty to the king seem well removed from twenty-first century America. Yet the laws that defined these offenses--which included heresy and...

Examining media coverage: a classroom study of Iraq war news.
May 1, 2004... Throughout the 2003 school year, my ninth grade global history students followed the media's coverage of the escalating crisis between the United States and Iraq. In early March of that year, as the media's coverage intensified, students...

Germany's opposition to the Iraq war and its effect on U.S.-German relations.
May 1, 2004... In a famous comment in January 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld referred to a difference between Old Europe and New Europe. By "Old Europe," he meant mainly the traditional European leaders, France and Germany, which adopted a stance...

Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression.(Book Review)
May 1, 2004... Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression Edited by Robert Cohen The University of North Carolina Press, 2002 Granetto, Ark. Nov. 6, 1936 Dear Mrs Roosevelt I am writing to you for some of your old...

Promoting fair and equitable assessments: a position statement of national council for the social studies.(NCSS Notebook)
May 1, 2004... NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES believes that fair and equitable assessment of all students must be an integral part of any social studies program. NCSS endorses assessments that require higher order thinking, writing, and connecting...

National Council for the Social Studies curriculum guidelines: (revised).(NCSS Notebook)
May 1, 2004... SOCIAL STUDIES IS THE INTEGRATED STUDY OF the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. Within the school program, social studies provides coordinated, systematic study drawing upon such disciplines as anthropology,...

Preparing citizens for a global community: a position statement of National Council for the Social Studies: (revised).(NCSS Notebook)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2004... NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES believes that an effective social studies program must include global and international education. Global and international education are important because the day-to-day lives of average citizens around...

The 47th NCSS House of Delegates: resolutions passed: these resolutions, presented by delegates from NCSS affiliates, were passed at the annual House of Delegates Assembly, November 14-16, 2003 in Chicago, Illinois.(NCSS Notebook)
May 1, 2004... Resolution 03-01: Social Studies in No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Supported by California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and ATSS/UFT...

Abolitionists among the founding generation.(lookout point)
May 1, 2004... In recent years, framers of the American republic, especially George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, have taken a public opinion thrashing for allowing the institution of slavery to persist during and after the American Revolution. Their...

Jefferson and the Haitian revolution.
May 1, 2004... All of the American newspapers covered events in Saint Domingue, in a great deal of detail. All Americans understood what was happening there. It wasn't that the revolution in Saint Domingue taught mainland slaves to be rebellious or to resist...

Runaway slave advertisements: teaching from primary documents.
May 1, 2004... RAN AWAY ON THE 30TH OF SEPTEMBER LAST, FROM THE SUBSCRIBER, LIVING IN HANOVER COUNTY, TWO NEGROES, VIZ., A NEGRO MAN, NAM'D ROGER, BORN AT ANGOLA, A PRETTY TALL, WELL SET FELLOW, ABOUT 30 YEARS OLD: HE HAD ON, WHEN HE WENT AWAY, A NEW OZNABRIG...

Teaching about immigration, past and present.
May 1, 2004... WHENEVER I RETURN to this country after traveling overseas, I am so grateful that I want to kiss the ground. I can understand why people try so hard to immigrate to the United States: the opportunities are often much greater than they are in...