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To: tekboy who wrote (29255)	5/11/2002 4:29:24 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Teaching Resource for High School and College Classrooms Using the SSRC's "After September 11" Essay Collection ssrc.org Young people are trying to make sense of the terrorist attack on September 11th and its aftermath. These events have created an extraordinary "teachable moment" to engage students in discussions about the global context of these attacks, the options for U.S. government and allied responses, as well as the potential consequences of terrorism. This teaching resource aims to provide teachers with the tools to seize on this "teachable moment." At the same time that working with these essays sharpens students' analytical, reading and writing skills, using the work of international experts in the field of sociology, political science, economics, anthropology, history and geography exposes students to various worldviews, a central component of a well-rounded education. To enable teachers to integrate these essays into their curricula, this resource includes: * Teaching Guides for Six Subject Areas. Each guide includes: 1. an introduction for teachers and students to key concepts for a given subject area; 2. short summaries of selected essays from the SSRC essay collection that are most accessible to advanced high school students and undergraduates, and offer interesting perspectives on a given subject area; 3. questions relating to selected essays for class discussions or writing assignments. * Ideas for Lessons and Assignments: using selected essays from the SSRC's "After September 11" essay collection. * Linking September 11 and its Aftermath to Curricula: offers ideas for ways in which particular subject areas relate to high school curriculum suggestions and standards put forth by the National Council for the Social Studies, the College Board (AP), and McRel. * Other Websites: other teaching and learning materials about September 11th and its aftermath available on the Internet.

To: tekboy who wrote (29255)	5/11/2002 8:05:24 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Just one more quick comment and then I'll quit because I know we're boring the thread with this academic gossip. Bringing the state back in, it's my impression, is a mark of Skocpol's later work. I agree there. Her earliest work, the dissertation work, while it is entitled something like States and Revolution, is written under Barrington Moore's influence, and thus more about the social surrounds of the state than the state. That dissertation, of course, brought the book, that brought the controversy in which Harvard denied tenure, she goes to Chicago, then to Berkeley, and then back to Harvard, much to the consternation of the Harvard sociology types who by then were in the thralls of "if you can't count it it doesn't exist". Perhaps she decided to move to Government instead. Whoops, just did a Google search and found, at least if The American Prospect can be trusted, that she has joint appointment in Sociology and Government. Nice that we are both right. prospect.org And then there is this page at a Harvard site. fas.harvard.edu Which is the Center for European Studies, which is quite strange since my impression is that her contemporary work is on American domestic policy. A woman for all seasons.