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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 – Katie Breault, The Register (Ludlow). Student Web Site Presents History of Ludlow. Click here to download a pdf of this article. www.turley.com
Saturday, August 2, 2008 – Ashleigh Pyecroft, Hampshire Gazette. Where History Still Lives, Valley Offers Vestiges of the Nation’s Earliest Days. Click here to download a pdf of this opinion piece. www.gazettenet.com
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 – Jennifer Huberdeau, The Transcript. Drury Students Look at North Adams History - "Students at Drury High School have given the city a new window to its history via a Web site created for their honors U.S. history classes." Click here to download a pdf of the article. Photo at right by Jennifer Huberdeau, The Transcript, North Adams. www.thetranscript.com
Monday, July 9, 2007 – Ted LaBorde, Springfield Republican. Students Net Reams of History – "Some of this town’s history is now available on the Internet, thanks to a research project completed by middle school fifth-graders and their teachers during the past school year." Click here to download a pdf of the article.
Sunday, July 01, 2007 – Fred Contrada, Springfield Republican. Students Put History Online – "Interested in bygone railroads? The origin of the Williston Northampton School? Immigrant Catholics in Easthampton? A group of students at Easthampton High School has just the Web site for you." Click here to download a pdf of the article.
January 19, 2007 – Holly Angelo, Springfield Republican. "Area social studies teachers got a peek at the state Department of Education’s guidelines for the new history and social science portion of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test yesterday afternoon." Click here to download a pdf of the article.
Download the Massachusetts Department of Education guide to the History and Social Science MCAS, published Feb. 26, 2007.
July 20, 2006 – Bob Paquette, WFCR Radio, NPR News & Music for Western New England "45 Teachers Learn to be Historians at 2006 Emerging American Teaching American History Institute." Click here to download as an audio file. (mp3 file – 1.5 MB; 1 minute 35 seconds)
