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Community leaders in New Richmond, Wis., recently reached out to support eighth-grade students via handwritten letters.  -More- 

Students from several schools in Lawrence County, Ala., have united to support each other and to seek legislative support to  -More- 

The May/June issue of The Social Studies Professional is out.  -More- 

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

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Miles Davis,American jazz musician -More- 

Huntley High School in Illinois incorporates a blended-learning approach of independent, self-paced online assignments and tr -More- 

Clayton Schrader's fourth-grade students at West Indianola Elementary School in Kansas have been accessing assignments on the -More- 

To truly honor and thank teachers, U.S.  -More- 

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Computer-programming students at Point Pleasant Borough High School in New Jersey are designing and coding educational comput -More- 

As new, more technology-savvy teachers enter the profession, novice educators and veteran teachers say they are learning from -More- 

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Eleventh-grade students at Virginia's Nansemond-Suffolk Academy played tour guide for the school's third-grade students on a  -More- 

The Congressional Medal of Honor Society has given the Citizen Honors Medal, the highest award it gives to a civilian, to the -More- 

The Christa McAuliffe Reach for the Stars Award was established in 1986 to assist classroom teachers in developing and implem -More- 

Mary Ledbetter, 2012 Social Studies Elementary Teacher of the Year, writes in the April 2013 TSSP about how her late start in -More- 

$125,000 Salary for Master Middle School Teachers
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Nicholas Murray Butler,American diplomat and educator -More- 

Martha's Vineyard, Mass., social studies teachers Elaine Weintraub and Brian Scott recently led a group of high-school sophom -More- 

Schools nationwide are adding hours to their calendars, in part, to help restore time taken away from social studies, science -More-