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Social Education
January/February 2007
Volume 71 Number 1

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NCSS Notebook
Building the Relationships That Matter
Peggy Altoff
By nurturing our professional relationships, we can increase public recognition of the vital role of social studies.

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Editor’s Notebook

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Letters to the Editor

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Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus: A Banker Who Believes Credit is a Human Right
Michelle Yvonne Szpara, Iftikhar Ahmad, and Patricia Velde Pederson
The Nobel Committee’s 2006 peace prize selection—a microfinance organization and its founder—offers teachers an opportunity to explore links between poverty and peace.

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Using Music to Teach about the Great Depression
Robert L. Stevens and Jared A. Fogel
Students will gain new perspectives on the socio-economic circumstances of the Great Depression through an analysis of song lyrics of the time.

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Point of View
Teaching about Genocide in a New Millennium
James G. Brown
Should digital simulations be used to teach about such tragedies as the genocide in Darfur?

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Congo: Elections and the Battle for Mineral Resources
Social Education Staff
Teaching about current events in the Democratic Republic of the Congo can illustrate for students the connection between technologies we enjoy in the West—cell phones, laptops and play stations—and fighting in a mineral-rich nation.

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Looking at the Law
Search and Seizure in the Schools
Kari Staros and Charles F. Williams
Students will learn about key Fourth Amendment concepts and the extent to which the amendment’s protections apply to their lives in and out of school.

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Surfing the Net
Website Potpourri
C. Frederick Risinger
The author provides a collection of noteworthy sites that can stimulate useful activities and projects for teachers and students.

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Comparing International Textbooks to Develop Historical Thinking
John J. DeRose
This lesson plan offers students the opportunity to compare how American and Vietnamese textbooks portray specific events of the Vietnam War.

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The Saffron Scourge: Society, Politics and Disease
Diane Luke and Ann Winkler
By taking a closer look at various Yellow Fever outbreaks, the authors demonstrate for students the social, governmental, and economic impact of epidemics upon cities.

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Life Behind the Wall: Palestinian Students Online
Doug Hart
English classes seemed boring to the author’s tenth-grade Ramallah students, until they decided to launch the first Palestinian online youth magazine.

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Book Review
How Robert Scheer’s Playing President Might Help Remediate the Problem of Shallow Textbooks and Political Apathy
Reviewed by James Michael
Mamer Books such as Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan, and Clinton—and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush can help raise awareness of contemporary politics and history.

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Book Review
Protective Custody: Prisoner 34042
Reviewed by Sanford Gutman
This memoir of a Holocaust survivor offers a unique perspective on the experience of women in concentration camps.