Social Education articles from October 2005

Social Education archives from October 2005

Editor's notebook.
October 1, 2005... The social studies classroom is where students learn to think about important issues, both contemporary and historical. This edition of Social Education offers articles and teaching ideas on an array of thought-provoking topics, ranging from...

Supreme Court roundup.(nominations)
October 1, 2005... Reactions to the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and debate over the president's replacement nomination, Judge John Roberts, Jr., of the D.C. Circuit, dominated this summer's Supreme Court recess. Subsequently, after Chief Justice...

Teaching about kids in history using the Internet.(Surfing the Net)
October 1, 2005... As a former teacher and a frequent speaker ill elementary and secondary classrooms, I've noticed that students are quite interested in stories about young people throughout history. Students want to know what it was like to be a kid during the...

Global health in the social studies classroom.
October 1, 2005... It may surprise students to realize that health problems in other countries affect them, too. Where people live and the conditions under which they live directly affect their health. The health of a population can also offer insight into a...

Protecting the rights of whistleblowers.
October 1, 2005... Coleen Rowley became one of the most famous whistleblowers in the United States in recent times when she blew the whistle on intelligence blunders at the FBI. The special agent's fiery 13-page letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller in 2002...

Learning about the Civil War through soldiers' letters.
October 1, 2005... We are in an era of fast-paced telecommunications, where faxes, e-mails, cell phones and messaging services have all but replaced what is quickly becoming a lost art: letter writing. People in general are rarely exposed to letter writing on a...

Teachers, classroom controversy, and the media.
October 1, 2005... Ayesha's story: "We're Talking about You" I knew teaching about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in my ninth grade world history class six months after the World Trade Center bombings could be challenging. Still, I saw this as an...

Does history matter? Ask the Armenians.
October 1, 2005... For as long as I've studied genocide, I have been cognizant of the fact that the Armenian community cares deeply about what happened to the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire during World War I and its aftermath. However, it was not until I...

A brief history of the Armenian genocide.
October 1, 2005... "I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared with the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915."...

New England and the African slave trade.(Lesson Plan)
October 1, 2005... In the United States, slavery is often thought of as a Southern institution. Many people today are unaware of the extent of slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth century North, particularly New England. Long thought of as the birthplace of...

Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential By Gene Sharp Boston: Extending Horizons Books, 2005 The ability of human beings to sacrifice and resist is the focus of Gene Sharp's recent book, Waging...

Literature, literacy, and legacy: teaching about the civil rights movement.
October 1, 2005... On May 22, 2002, Bobby Frank Cherry, the last suspect in the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. The church bombing, which killed Denise McNair, 11, and...