Textbooks weighed and found wanting in social studies
A UPI report under the Joint Council of Economic Education finds high school social studies textbooks fail to teach economics. It criticizes lack of analytical content, out of date facts, and misuse of concepts, urging editors and integrated scarcity focus, opportunity cost, and supply demand for clearer policy understanding.
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Patricia McCormack
NEW York
UPI
Joint Council of Economic Education
Te Sears-Roebuck Foundation
Inouye Reflects on Little Jap Incident and Slurs
UPI reports Senator Daniel K. Inouye recalls the “little Jap” furor and the injury that ended his pursuit of medicine. He cites prewar discrimination, wartime heroism, and his view that Americans have grown more tolerant, urging dignity and equal rights for Japanese Americans.
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Washington
UPI
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Hawaii
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Senate
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United States
Black police chief leads all white Texas suburb
Nathaniel Tyler, a Black veteran police officer, serves as chief of Shavano Park Texas, the affluent all white San Antonio suburb. He travels from south San Antonio due to housing costs, asserts race is not an issue, and notes limited local Black presence while describing a welcoming community and his career path from Galveston to law enforcement.
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Bexar County
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Harlem
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Vienna opens child help line and advisory bureau
Vienna sets up a direct line to a child psychologist for counseling referrals and hospital connections. Parents with less urgent issues can use the children's advisory bureau at city hall, per the city’s Press and Information Service.
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Vienna
UPI
Press and Information Service
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