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A group of students in grades 3-5 in Gadsden City Schools in Alabama recently spent three months researching and designing in -More- 

The April 2013 issue of The Social Studies Professional, the newsletter for members of the National Council for the Social St -More- 

"Teaching Reading with the Social Studies Standards: Elementary Units that Integrate Great Books, Social Studies, and the Com -More- 

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G.K. Chesterton,British writer -More- 

Fifth-graders at Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton Elementary School were asked to choose an event or person in history and develo -More- 

Fun in the classroom need not be limited to April Fool's Day, also known as April 1, writes blogger Lyndsey Wallen.  -More- 

A Louisiana school district has launched a new pilot program in nine middle schools in which educators use a novel to teach s -More- 

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Transformed professional development that is teacher-driven would, among other things, help educators grow from novices to ve -More- 

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The flipped-classroom model shifts lectures to video that can be viewed at home, allowing classroom periods to be used for di -More- 

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Students in Sandi Rae's Grade 9 leadership class at Mt.  -More- 

Good Government Day in Taunton, Mass., is a decades-old tradition for Taunton High School students to learn about the operati -More- 

NCSS is seeking members to serve on the NCSS-Children's Book Council Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People sele -More- 

NCSS and the Research Committee sponsor three annual research awards designed to recognize substantive scholarly inquiry in s -More- 

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Georges-Louis Leclerc,French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist and author -More- 

Tung Trinh, a middle-school geography teacher at Garrison Forest School, Owings Mills, Md., uses the New York Times online to -More- 

Studying history is like watching the TV show "CSI" and playing the role of detective to figure out how and why events happen -More- 

Every teacher has "those days" when students arrive at class out of energy and with little interest in the day's lessons, wri -More-