This past September I was jarred by the passing of Gale Eugene Sayers, an NFL football player, who played for the Chicago Bears during my youth. His sparkling, but brief 68-game professional career culminated in his induction into the NFL Hall of Fame—at age 34 the youngest man to be so honored.
Read MoreAs we approach this Memorial Day weekend, you'll appreciate Kenny's blog post, a letter to his children, which also speaks to the important place of the social studies in the curriculum.
Read MoreAfter flying to Minneapolis/St. Paul this past week, I drove up to the “arrowhead” over the weekend—the closest thing to visiting Canada without needing a passport.
Read MoreIn this week's blog post, Dr. Steve Bickmore, a good friend and a former colleague at LSU, whose expertise is in English Language Arts (ELA) Teacher Education and Young Adult (YA) Literature has co-authored a post that celebrates collaboration while pointing to the ways that Young Adult Literature can be used as a tool to bridge the subject silos of both Social Studies and English Language Arts classrooms.
Read MoreIt is a crisp (high 30s) mid-April morning—in Mississippi we would say “cold morning!”—in Washington, DC as I commute from my Arlington, Virginia hotel to the Library of Congress. This day, for me, like that of so many Captial City commuters, requires using the Metro system--a fixture in this walking city. Previously, this mode of travel seemed foreign, distant, and distasteful to this native Hoosier and current Mississippi resident. Over the last couple of years, this 22 minute subway ride has become surprisingly comfortable and familiar.
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