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Table of Contents | December 2005
Editor's Note: Making the Most of Math
Learning to appreciate numbers.
Letters: Time for Teachers
Teachers need a summer break -- can we pay them to take enrichment courses while they're vacationing?
Math and Science Rock: Hands-On Learning Is Music to Students' Ears -- and Minds
Educating Hearts and Minds: An Interview with George Lucas
Kids Count: Young Citizen-Scientists Learn Environmental Activism
Little Shop of Physics: A Mobile Hands-On Science Program Captivates
Room to Learn: Trailer Bash
Room To Learn: Mystery Science Theater
Where Have All the Principals Gone?: The Acute School-Leader Shortage
Intelligent Design: Immersing Students in Civic Education
A New Learning Day: After School Is No Afterthought
It Takes a Planet: Education Is a Common Thread
Free Radicals: Loosening the Reins on Education
Kimberly Oliver: National Teacher of the Year
Taking Back the Class: Teach to the Test? No Way!
Summer School Nation: Vivid Vacation Pursuits
Readers' Survey 2006
The Daring Dozen 2006: Our Heroes
Why Johnny (Still) Can't Read: Schools Meet the Challenge of Producing Teen Readers
Fighting for Fitness: Educational Institutions Step into the Ring
Lost in Translation: Reaching Out to English-Language Learners
Synching Up with the iKid: Connecting to the Twenty-First-Century Student
Time Out: Rethinking the Hours America Spends Educating
What Works: Using Our Time Wisely to Support and Improve Public Education
F for Assessment: Standardized Testing Fails
Brave New School: Teaching Disabled and Nondisabled Students Together
The Daring Dozen 2004: Our Heroes
Full House: As Las Vegas Grows, So Does the Need to Accommodate Its Students
Sage Advice: Keeping Well During the School Year
What's the best way to stay healthy in a class full of sniffling children?
Features
Stretch Goals: A Different Kind of PE Class
oga lessons enhance fitness, focus, and school success.
Adopt and Adapt: Shaping Tech for the Classroom
Twenty-first-century schools need twenty-first-century technology.
Beyond Bake Sales: Family Subsidy of Public Schools
Parents shell out hundreds or even thousands of dollars for programs once provided by state and local education budgets.
Brain Food: Nutritious Eats + Yummy Ingredients = Happy Students
The nation's largest school district eats its vegetables -- with relish.
Fighting for Fitness: Educational Institutions Step into the Ring
Schools battle an epidemic of childhood obesity -- a problem they helped create.
Cool Schools
Film School: Making Movies From Storyboard to Screen
The silver screen inspires young minds to think big.
How To: Use Digital Storytelling in Your Classroom
Empower student creativity with affordable and accessible technology.
Design
Going Green: Designing Eco-Friendly Schools
In Chicago's urban sprawl, an environmentally friendly school blooms.
Heart & Soul
Intensive Care: Medical Treatment at Schools Is About More Than Band-Aids
School nurses, still alive and well, help their charges stay that way. But now they're also dealing with a bewildering array of chronic illnesses and counseling issues.
Muse: Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: An Excellent Combination
Understanding the difference between fast and slow thinking, and the place and time for each.
Head of Class
77 Percent: Bullied Students
Let's learn how to put a stop to it.
Affection Deficit: Dealing with Students Who Hear a Different Drummer
Daydreamers thrive when teachers recognize their learning styles -- and emotional needs.
Extra Credit: Goodies for the Teacher and Student
Great things for class -- tested in our secret underground labs.
Field Trips: Events for Educators
Places to go, people to see, things to do.
Grade-a-Matic: The Red Pen Goes High Tech
Students no longer have to agonize while waiting for test results.
Crime Seen: Students as Investigators
What's more fun than unraveling a mystery in the classroom?
Recess
Wet Side Story: Rain Won't Be a Bother With This Outerwear
Gear up for the rainy season.
Hand Jive: Regular Soap or Antibacterial?
Antibacterial soap is no antidote for germs
The Big Sneezy: Thwarting the Common Cold
Over-the-counter remedies might lighten your symptoms, or just your wallet.
Great Balls O'Fitness: Staying Fit Can Be a Ball
Once you get the hang of these big bouncers, your workouts will be on a roll.
A Williamsburg Christmas: A Holiday History Lesson
The colonial living-history center spruces up for Christmas.
