Scholastic Update articles from September 1998

Scholastic Update archives from September 1998

Fights for your rights: jailed for their words.(teenagers constitutional rights are being tested with they arrest for anonymously producing hate materials in their underground magazine)
September 7, 1998... Teaching Objectives To help students understand an ongoing debate: whether the rights that spring from the U.S. Constitution apply equally to teenagers. After reading this article, students should be able to * identify the key...

Fights for your rights: a graduation prayer.(prayer caused discomfort to teenager who filed a lawsuit charging that the prayer was unconstitutional)(Cover Story)
September 7, 1998... Most teenagers can't wait to graduate from high school. But what if you felt that graduation day was designed to exclude and humiliate you? That's exactly how some recent graduates of Mandarin High School in Jacksonville, Florida, feel....

Fights for your rights: curfews for kids.(cities make rules regarding how late a teenager can be in a public place)
September 7, 1998... It never occurred to Tiana Hutchins that chatting with her friends on a neighborhood street corner was a crime. But that's exactly what she was doing one night in 1995, when a Washington, D.C., police officer ordered her to go inside or face...

The pop-up Bill of Rights.(Databank)
September 7, 1998... No one has ever actually died of boredom reading the Bill of Rights. But generations of students thought they pretty close. You'd never guess that when the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution are translated into plain English, you find...

We the people.(the Constitution created a government to save the United States)(Lookback)
September 7, 1998... Facing a national crisis, the Constitution"s framers created a government that would save the United States. Here's how they did it. Imagine the nation in turmoil. Poor farmers and workers are taking up arms against the government in a...

Death in the schools: school shootings spur communities to search for answers.(Government)
September 7, 1998... Fourteen-year-old Becky Steger was on her way home from a softball game last December when she heard the car radio say something about a Shooting at Heath High School, where her sister, Kayce, was a sophomore. As she pulled up to her...

The bomb is back: India and Pakistan's nuclear tests rekindle old fears.(Atlas Update)
September 7, 1998... It was a bombshell announcement. On May 11, 1998, the South Asian nation of India shocked the World by exploding three nuclear weapons in underground tests. The nuclear blasts sent a stunning message, especially to India's neighbor and...

The great draft riots.(urban workers protested the military draft during the Civil War)(U.S. History - The Civil War)
September 7, 1998... At the heights of the Civil War, urban workers rose up in defiance of the military draft--and threatened the Union's survival At 7:00 a.m. on a typical day in New York City in the 1860s, the docks lining the city's waterfront were teeming...

Taking down a dictator. (students oust Indonesia's former President Suharto; includes related article on the International Monetary Fund)(Asia On the Edge)
September 21, 1998... In Indonesia, student protesters speak the unspeakable--and break the grip of a long-term dictator JAKARTA, Indonesia--In the steamy heat of a late-spring afternoon, a student demonstration was winding down. Banner-waving young men in jeans...

Stubbornly starving. (widespread famine in North Korea)(Asia On the Edge)
September 21, 1998... Award-winning journalist Hilary Mackenzie was the first foreign journalist to be allowed into North Korea to report on the famine there. For two months last year, she traveled throughout the country, one of the most secretive nations in the...

The rising sun sinks. (Japan undergoes political and social changes)(Asia On the Edge)
September 21, 1998... A painful recession challenges the very system that wrought Japan's success Kota Takaba arrives at school like any other Japanese student, carrying his leather backpack. But the time of his arrival is unusual--a half hour late. He skips by the...

Asia falling.(economic outlook for east Asian countries)(Illustration)
September 21, 1998... For the past 15 years, Asia's economic powerhouses seemed invincible. Japan led the pack, followed by the so-called Flying Tigers--smaller, developing countries that were booming into prosperity. Now, economic crises have defanged even the...

The President under fire.(President Bill Clinton's legal troubles explained)
September 21, 1998... Bill Clinton always wanted to make his mark on history--but not like this. In the span of nine months, a sexual affair between the President and a White House intern has mushroomed into a scandal that threatens to bring down his...

America's war on terrorism.(U.S. tries to fight alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden, but victory is uncertain)
September 21, 1998... Late in the afternoon of August 20, 1998, a grave and weary President Clinton addressed the nation, and announced that hours earlier the United States had fired dozens of cruise missiles into the countries of Sudan and Afghanistan. "The...

Russia's nightmare.(Russia economy trouble could also mean political turmoil)(includes related article on Viktor Chernomyrdin)
September 21, 1998... The world's largest country faces a devastating economic crisis. Russia's experiment with democracy is in peril. In Moscow, Russia's capital, thousands of students are marching in the streets to protest huge cutbacks in government funding...