Social Education articles from November 2001

Social Education archives from November 2001

Editor's notebook.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
November 1, 2001... THIS ISSUE of Social Education contains a special section providing information and teaching suggestions for our readers in the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, and the subsequent engagement...

Debating war and peace in Washington Square Park. (Reflections in a Time of Crisis).
November 1, 2001... NEW YORKERS HAVE NEVER BEEN A SHY LOT. And during the days and weeks that followed the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster, their expressiveness was put on display in makeshift memorials and democracy walls in several of Manhattan's parks, most...

Media literacy skills: interpreting tragedy. (Reflections in a Time of Crisis).
November 1, 2001... THE GIRLS ARE working on a project in Mrs. Jacobsen's (1) seventh grade social studies class, and by their intensity, you know that they are under deadline pressure to get this project done soon. Their voices have a touch of urgency as the...

Following a tragic event: a necessary challenge for civic educators. (Reflections in a Time of Crisis).
November 1, 2001... "IN PATRIOTIC TIME, DISSENT IS MUTED," blares a headline from The New York Times (September 28, 2001). White House spokesman Ari Fleischer chides comedian Bill Maher by saying that Americans "need to watch what they say, watch what they do......

In war, is law silent? Security and freedom after September 11. (Reflections in a Time of Crisis).
November 1, 2001... IT WAS SEPTEMBER 29, eighteen days after the terrible attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. While standing in a long luggage-check line with my daughter at Baltimore-Washington Airport--our first trip there since September 11--we...

Teaching about terrorism, Islam, and tolerance with the internet. (Reflections in a Time of Crisis).
November 1, 2001... I'M WRITING THIS COLUMN on the one-month anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A week ago, at the Texas Council for the Social Studies annual meeting, I heard a woman say while...

Civil war in Afghanistan. (Reflections in a Time of Crisis)(Cover Story).(Cover Story)
November 1, 2001... CIVILIZATION BEGINS WITH ORDER, GROWS WITH LIBERTY AND DIES WITH CHAOS. --WILL DURANT Lesson Sequence Explain to students that they will be looking at the civil war in Afghanistan as an introduction to the study of civil war in...

1919 Presidential proclamation to schoolchildren about the Red Cross. (Teaching with Documents).
November 1, 2001... IN SEPTEMBER 1917, five months following the entrance of the United States into World War I, President Woodrow Wilson, who was president not only of the United States, but also of the American National Red Cross, officially announced the...

War crimes: an end in sight?
November 1, 2001... WILL WE HAVE A WORLD guided by the role of law? Will a time come when crimes of war will be punished in a court of law? When acts of terrorism can be handled by an international tribunal rather than with a military response? In the lifetime of...

Is federal power shrinking or growing? New debates on federalism. (Looking at the Law).
November 1, 2001... ONCE THOUGHT BY MANY SCHOLARS and teachers to be an obscure topic about constitutional theory or intergovernmental responsibilities, the concept of federalism is attracting new attention among policy and legal scholars. The primary reason is...

Student views of democracy: the good and bad news.
November 1, 2001... FOR THE MOST PART, U.S. ninth graders are well on their way to being knowledgeable, caring, engaged citizens when compared to their peers internationally. That is the good news. The bad news is that within this generally positive picture, some...