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Slide 27

Social Studies: Conceptual

"...You furnish the pictures; I'll furnish the war." William Randolph Hearst (to war correspondent Frederic Remington)

Which cause of the Spanish-American War is most clearly shown by this statement?

  1. imperialism
  2. militarism
  3. political ambition
  4. yellow journalism

Speaker's notes:

One instructional implication of these similarities is that we aren't going to have much success in raising the academic achievement of those students who are scoring below basic on science NAEP until we teach them to read.