CURRENT EVENTS UPDATE

To the Teacher: In an ongoing effort to keep you and your students up to date on the complex and far-reaching events that are unfolding around the globe, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill provides this current events update twice a year. Produced through a co-publishing relationship between Glencoe/McGraw-Hill and TIME School Publishing, the TIME/Glencoe Current Events Update Spring 2001 brings the latest information about important happenings, issues and trends to your students in the vivid and compelling style for which TIME is renowned. On the following pages, you’ll find news reports, feature stories, maps, graphs, charts and chronologies taken exclusively from recent issues of TIME. Accompanying these articles are questions and worksheets to help students analyze and investigate the topics about which they have been reading. We hope the TIME/Glencoe Current Events Update Spring 2001 will lead your students to a deeper understanding of the latest developments in the United States and abroad. Please visit Glencoe’s website at www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies to access this update online. Additional resources for teaching current events are available on a weekly basis from the TIME Classroom website, located at www.timeclassroom.com. Browse the TIME/Glencoe Current Events Update Spring 2001 using the links below, or click here to download the files in PDF format.
NATION
ELECTION 2000	Breaking Down the Electorate Can Bush Bring Us Together? Can the Court Recover? WORKSHEET: Analyzing the Supreme Court Decision Is This Any Way To Vote? The Wildest Election in History
CONGRESS	The Mods' Squad Capitol Hill WORKSHEET: The Changing Composition of the House
LAW	The Long Way Home
BUSINESS	Score One for ALOTW This Time It's Different
WORLD
MIDDLE EAST	A Bridge to Peace The Bloody Mountain Sneak Attack WORKSHEET: Interpreting Political Cartoons
YUGOSLAVIA	The End of Milosevic
PERU	Happy in His Hotel Exile
ENVIRONMENT	The Road to Disaster WORKSHEET: Current Events In Review Answers
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