Jeff Weintraub’s post Re: Jefferson, Madison, & Burke on the US Constitution includes his own comments, followed by the text of a review by Cass Sunstein in The New Republic of a book by Sanford Levinson on how the US Constitution is and has been viewed, and used, from the contrasting views of Jefferson and Madison to the present day. I think there’s a lot here (in the book, review, and commentary) that could be put to great use in social studies.
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Infotopia on BookTV
October 13, 2006 – 2:16 pm
Professor Sunstein presents the possibilities of a human potential to aggregate information by sifting through volumes of unfiltered information without resorting to prejudice and preconceptions.
PIG author on BookTV Sunday 10/22 at 2:00am ET
October 12, 2006 – 7:48 pm
[Phylis Schlafly's] Eagle Forum: Tom Bethell, “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science” on BookTV Sunday 10/15 at 5:15 ET
Michigan update: ID ok in other classes?
October 12, 2006 – 10:35 am
News media apparently read the Mich Bd of Ed decision as supporting Governor Granholm’s position, allowing ID in non-science classes.
Michigan: Is teaching ID ok if it’s not in science class?
October 10, 2006 – 8:02 pm
Reports of today’s action by the Michigan Board of Education seem to say that somehow the Board has affirmatively allowed teaching ID in Michigan public schools, as long as it is not in science classes.
ISI & the “civics crisis”
October 6, 2006 – 12:46 am
Is there bias in the newly-released Coming Crisis in Citizenship report, reflecting a possible conservative orientations of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI)? These questions have been raised in a thread of an email list for professors of social studies education.
