Recognition
Hakim's books earned her the first James A. Michener Award for Writing by the National Council for Social Studies. and two Parents' Choice awards.
Now in a revised third and fourth editions, incorporating new materials and corrections, books from A History of US have been recommended to accompany the Common Core curriculum. The books have been on adoption lists in the California, Texas, and Virginia. They are also used in homeschool curricula. K12 Virtual/Home School. In 1995, Pulitzer-prize winning historian David McCullough went before the Senate Education Committee in support of a bill sponsored by Lamar Alexander and Ted Kennedy intended to improve the teaching and learning of history. McCullough gave a scathing attack on the state of textbooks, but cited Hakim's book as an exception: "Joy Hakim's new...multi-volume History of the United States is superb. But others are dismal almost beyond describing.".
Hakim is currently writing a storyteller's book on evolutionary biology, which includes new research into symbiotic biology and presents the three domains that currently describe the biological world.
Her book, The Story of Science was:
- Winner of 2008 Benjamin Franklin Award for Education/Teaching/Academic
- Awarded Selector's Choice 2008 CBC/NSTA's Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12
- Awarded 2007 USA Book News's Best Book in General Science Category
- Selected as a nonfiction finalist in the 2008 Colorado Book Awards
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