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Google Hangouts can help schools improve professional development and communication, writes Ben Johnson, an education consult -More- 

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An art program called the Memory Project is helping connect art students at Idaho's Pocatello High School with children in or -More- 

The Brookfield Zoo in Illinois offers volunteer opportunities for students with disabilities aimed at helping them gain skill -More- 

Today, Monday, Feb. 25, is the deadline to submit a proposal to present a session at the 2013 NCSS Annual Conference in St.  -More- 

This NCSS Summer Professional Development Workshop, taught by nationally recognized Socratic seminar trainer John Zola, will  -More- 

Anna Masterton Buchan,Scottish writer -More- 

Artist and teacher Fax Gilbert turns history lessons into performances as he travels the Midwest, inspiring students as they  -More- 

Lessons on African-American history span schools' curriculum in Ocean City, N.J., where students are learning about jazz and  -More- 

The school board for Temecula Valley Unified School District in California voted Tuesday to immediately halt requirements tha -More- 

Across-the-board federal budget cuts, known as sequestration, scheduled to take effect next week, will have a dramatic effect -More- 

Leaders in Ohio are encouraging school districts to look for opportunities to share technology resources to improve efficienc -More- 

The Granite City School District in Missouri is using a 15-minute computer survey to determine what the district is doing wro -More- 

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A Florida high school is offering an Engaged Citizenship course, in which students learn how to successfully complete communi -More- 

The Oscar-nominated film "Lincoln" has refocused attention to the events leading up to the end of slavery in the U.S., but it -More- 

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The deadline for registering for the 2013 International Social Studies Conference in Fez, Morocco, is Feb. 25.  -More- 

NCSS members, please remember to vote in the 2013 Board of Directors Election. Individuals who were NCSS members as of Dec.  -More- 

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University of Maine

W. Somerset Maugham,British writer -More-