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The Social Studies Club at Indiana's Normal Community West High School is working hard to maintain their school's history thr -More- 

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Minnesota lawmakers made changes to its social studies curriculum, including the phasing out of ancient civilizations classes -More- 

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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- 

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Fairfax County schools superintendent Jack D. Dale was released on Sunday from Inova Fairfax Hospital after having emergency cardiovascular surgery last week.

School officials said Dale is not expected to resume his duties until the first week of June at the earliest after he suffered an aortic aneurysm at work.

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A new United Nations report titled "Edible insects: Future prospects for food and feed security" says that at least 2 billion people on Earth eat insects and that they are a nutritious, environmentally sound way to feed people.

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When people talk about 21st century skills, more often than not they are talking about things like creativity, the ability to work in a group and solve problems. But there's another skill that cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham writes about here that is just as important. Willingham is a professor and director of graduate studies in psychology at the University of Virginia and author of "Why Don't Students Like School?" His latest book is "When Can You Trust The Experts? How to tell good science from bad in education." This appeared on his Science and Education blog.

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As he left the presidency of George Mason University last year, Alan G. Merten earned nearly $1.2 million in retirement benefits, making him one of the nation’s top-paid public university leaders, according to a new survey.

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At least 17 well-known districts are facing superintendent vacancies, and the turnover may bring big changes in some school systems.

Meaningful educational change can only happen through effective and visionary leadership, write Ronald J. Bonnstetter and Bill J. Bonnstetter.