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Texas students in Judson, San Antonio and South San independent school districts have been taking field trips to connect them -More- 

Ohio's Sauder Village, with its old home and demonstrations of butter churning and quilting, offers visiting students a histo -More- 

Teaching Reading with the Social Studies Standards
Teaching Reading with the Social Studies Standards: Elementary Units that Integrate Great Books, Social Studies, and the Common Core Standards is the latest book from NCSS. This resource includes class activities that help teachers to achieve learning expectations of the National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies as well as specific objectives outlined in the Common Core Standards for Reading Literature.

The St. Louis Housing Bureau is now accepting hotel reservations for the 2013 Annual Conference.  -More- 

Joe Karb, 2012 NCSS Middle School Teacher of the Year, writes about the situation in Syria in the May/June 2013 TSSP.  -More- 

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Marcus Aurelius,Roman emperor -More- 

The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was unknown to students in the 11th-grade language arts class at Jefferson High School in Portlan -More- 

Under the guidance of finance and accounting students from the University of Colorado, students at Summit Middle School in Bo -More- 

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The Governing Board of Arizona's Tucson Unified School District has approved a policy that, as of this fall, sets specific be -More- 

West Virginia plans this fall to expand to all schools a teacher-evaluation system that began two years ago as a pilot progra -More- 

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When introducing technology in education, it is important to understand how technology is defined and critical for educators  -More- 

Research shows that many U.S.  -More- 

Students and teachers at the Center for Innovative Learning in Aiken, S.C., have collected $4,881 worth of their "CIL bucks"  -More- 

Students and teachers from four Maine schools collaborated with the Maine Historical Society to archive photographs, maps, le -More- 

NCSS provides the professional network and teaching resources to keep social studies a valued and vital part of the nation's  -More- 

NCSS is seeking candidates for Vice-President, and the Board of Directors.  -More- 

$125,000 Salary for Master Middle School Teachers
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Grace Murray Hopper,U.S. Navy officer and computer scientist -More- 

Woodland High School teachers Erica Chung and Mike Owens organized a recent field trip to the traveling replica of the Vietna -More- 

A wax museum project at Wheeler Middle School in Crown Point, Ind., has enabled students to research, write papers and portra -More-