• Dr. Seuss Inspires Read to Kids Day
• Reading Aloud -- Are Students EverToo Old?
  Do you read aloud to your students? Is there ever a time when students are too old to be read to? Many teachers are firm believers in reading aloud -- even at the high school and college levels!
• 25 Ideas to Motivate Young Readers!
  To celebrate Children's Book Week, the folks at the BOOK-IT!® Program have given permission for Education World to reprint 25 great ideas from teachers -- ideas that are sure to get kids across the grades excited about reading!
• Checkpoints in Reading
  The Council for Educational Development and Research (CEDaR) has created a list of “checkpoints in reading”---for Kindergarten and grades 3, 6, 9, and 12---to help parents better understand their child’s reading development.

Jane Addams, American pacifist/ social reformer and co-founder of Chicago’s Hull House (Nobel 1931) born (1860)

James Melville Gilliss, naval officer and astronomer who founded the Naval Observatory in Washington D.C., born (1811)

Marquis de Lafayette, a French nobleman commissioned a general in the Continental Army who helped the colonies achieve independence from Britain, born (1757)

• Great Sites for Teaching About...The American Revolution
  Best sites on the web for teaching about the American Revolution time period.
• Join the Revolution!
  Follow the progress of the American Revolution War from the first battle to the last.

Oberlin College, Ohio, which had been the first US college to accept women, also became the first college to offer co-education by granting equal status to both women and men in common classes (1834)

• Higher Education Center
  Resources and tools from our Higher Education Center

The Westminster Abbey funeral for Diana, Princess of Wales, was watched by over 2 billion people on television (1997)

• Social Sciences Center
  Resources and tools from our Social Sciences Center

Magellan's ship completed journey sailing around the world (1522)

• Explore the Explorers Online!
  Columbus and the other early explorers provide your students with the opportunity to explore new worlds -- as well as worlds of knowledge and discovery! This week, Education World delivers a shipload of sites and activities guaranteed to keep your lessons afloat -- and your curriculum current.
• Great Sites for Teaching About…Explorers
  Best sites on the web for teaching about exlorers.

USSR recognized Baltic States Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania (1991)

President McKinley was shot and mortally wounded at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. (1901)

• Great Sites for Teaching About…Presidents of the United States
  Best sites on the web for teaching about the presidents.
• U.S. Presidents on the Internet!
  

Puritans landed at Salem and formed the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628)

John Dalton, chemist developed the atomic theory of matter (1766)

• Science Center 9-12
  

Baseball player Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig's ironman record by playing in his 2,131st straight game (1996)