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Global History and Social Studies Department Chair Kader Adjout has been using technology in his Middle East senior elective to connect his class with students from Afghanistan. He uses a private social network (a Ning) to work with teachers and students in Afghanistan, and his students post to a blog which receives responses from the [...]

Rodney Yeoh’s 11th grade world history classes have been studying the Cold War. In addition to textbooks, Mr. Yeoh regularly brings in materials from the web to supplement the discussions. In a recent blog post, he asks students to comment on a New York Times article about a “new” Cold War. The post and a [...]

History Department Chair Kader Adjout teaches an elective called “The Middle East.” In a recent blog post, he asks students to respond to a brief, but not simple, prompt: “What should the U.S. role in the Middle East be?” Here are a few student responses.
Sheyda ‘10
The United States should keep promoting democracy and freedom in [...]