The question - what to do with Social Studies in a state test?

Every spring, as Florida's reading, math and science teachers scramble to teach a few last-minute lessons and sleep restlessly with dreams of the FCAT, their colleagues in the social studies department wonder if they're lucky or not.

History -- and its academic cousins in government, geography, economics and civics -- is the only core subject not tested directly on next month's all-important Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.