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"Every Student should be studying one or more of the disciplines of the social studies every day," said Peggy Altoff, president of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), in her opening remarks to the 86th annual conference in Washington, D.C., Dec. 1-3.
This year's conference was a huge success with nearly 5,000 attendees.
The conference is the largest gathering of social studies educators, classroom teachers, teacher educators, researchers, school officials, authors, textbook publishers, and newsmakers in the nation.
The theme of this year's conference "Social Studies: Promise and Practice," reflected the organization's commitment to uniting and enhancing educators' capacity to teach history, economics, civics, geography and the other social sciences and humanities that comprise social studies.
This would mean that social studies teachers would no longer be restricted in what they can teach by NCLB requirements that do not recognize social studies as a core subject.
Altoff encouraged attendees to fulfill the promise and potential of social studies by continually improving their practice, emphasizing that their students depend on them to do so.
The Conference is the largest national annual event for the development of social studies professionals.
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Posted on December 12, 2006 08:24 PM
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