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But Jack Buckley, the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which administers the exam, said the time 12th-graders spent in social-studies class and studying the subject had increased over the past decade.

Don't Know Much About Geography: Test Results Out Stephanie Banchero 2011

In the end, virtual schooling "comes down to what you make of it," says Rosie Lowndes, a social-studies teacher at Georgia Cyber Academy.

My Teacher Is an App Stephanie Banchero 2011

Teachers don't dwell on the controversy, because it's just part of an eventful life, said Leslie Wallace Skinner, who helps with the designing of social-studies curriculum for the South Carolina Education Department.

Carolinas politely fight over presidential birthplace 2011

Until recently, says Frank Tangredi, a social-studies editorial director for the publisher Pearson Education Inc., he and his writers assumed that kids reading their materials would have some personal memory of 9/11.

Teaching 9/11 history to students too young to remember 2011

As Mr. Jacobsen notes, the map of Louisiana many of us remember from social-studies textbooks—the one that looked like a doughty work boot—was based on decades-old surveys and hasn't existed for years.

A Gulf Requiem Wayne Curtis 2011

Teachers don't dwell on the controversy, because it's just part of an eventful life, said Leslie Wallace Skinner, who helps with the designing of social-studies curriculum for the South Carolina Education Department.

Carolinas politely fight over presidential birthplace 2011

Then came the moment everyone had waited for, the tea party response delivered by Rep. Michele Bachmann R-Minn., with the aid of what appeared to be transparencies used in a middle-school social-studies class somewhere between the last Sputnik moment and the present one.

State of the Union? Hyperwired Hank Stuever 2011

Sue Blanchette, president-elect of the National Council for Social Studies, a national association of K-12 and college social-studies teachers, called the results disheartening and said history education has been marginalized in the last decade.

Students Stumble Again on the Basics of History Stephanie Banchero 2011

Sue Blanchette, president-elect of the National Council for Social Studies, a national association of K-12 and college social-studies teachers, called the results disheartening and said history education has been marginalized in the last decade.

Students Stumble Again on the Basics of History Stephanie Banchero 2011

Veronica Raccah, a 30-year-old social-studies researcher in Rome, says she stopped buying her cocktail dresses at Alberta Ferretti five years ago.

Custom Tailors Enjoying a Boom Nathania Zevi 2011