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A little diversion from the school reform fare: An Illinois school has 24 sets of twins in a single grade.

This Associated Press story reports that the discovery was made by 11-year-old twins Luke and Ryan Novosel, who attend Highcrest Middle School in Wilmette, a northern suburb of Chicago, when they were looking around for a way to get into the Guinness Book of World Records.

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As a first-year teacher at Delong Middle School in Wisconsin, social studies teacher Sam Van Hefty was not short of ideas or  -More- 

Eighth-grade students at Le Mars Community Middle School in Iowa did some detective work to find local veterans to correspond -More- 

An American flag that flew over George Washington's Virginia home, and a portrait of the first president, are on display at A -More- 

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"The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards" will be published this summer, but wi -More- 

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As the Knox County, Tenn., school system works to provide every student and teacher with a high-tech device, hundreds of educ -More- 

As officials in Vancouver, British Columbia, consider setting guidelines for online interactions between students and teacher -More- 

Students at Penn Wood High School in Delaware County, Pa., recently rallied to show support for their school and each other a -More- 

Social studies students at Roton Middle School in Norwalk, Conn., recently played the role of an 1870s farming family and ana -More- 

NCSS Executive Director Susan Griffin appeared June 5 on Blog Talk Radio to talk about the central role of social studies in  -More- 

NCSS has an exciting lineup of professional development workshops scheduled for this summer!  -More- 

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New discipline policies approved last week by the Fairfax County school board follow a steady decline in the number of such cases considered by the school district in recent years.

The substantial policy changes, the latest effort by the school system to address the evolving discipline process, are expected to reduce the number of suspensions and possible expulsions students face every year for the most serious offenses.

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Our lessons are on summer vacation, but here are our social studies-related lesson plans for the 2012-13 school year.    

Editor’s note: Following is the text of a letter written by Howard University trustee Renee Higginbotham-Brooks. In the letter, disclosed Friday, she charges that the historically black university in Northwest Washington is “in genuine trouble” because of fiscal and management issues. Higginbotham-Brooks confirmed to The Post on Saturday that she wrote the letter, but declined further comment.

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