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Table of Contents | February 2007
Editor's Note: The Importance of Play
Today's over-scheduled kids could use some true play time.
Letters: Go Global
Kudos for IBO.
Dispatches: Mind the Gap: The Key to Equal Achievement
The new challenge: No underprivileged child left behind.
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: Monument to Teachers
If there were to be a monument to teachers on the Mall in Washington, DC, what should it be?
Features
Room to Learn: Stark Reality
A teacher returns to a whole new world after Hurricane Katrina destroyed everything around her.
Pop Quiz: Rob Morrow
The actor tells how his drama teacher helped him turn from the self-destructive ways of his youth.
Future School: Reshaping Learning from the Ground Up
Alvin Toffler tells us what's wrong -- and right -- with public education.
Gender Matters: Dividing Boys and Girls
Educators battle over single-sex schools.
Fine Tuning: Art and Music in the Afternoon
An innovative after-school program in the South Bronx cleverly uses its art and culture offerings to reinforce classroom lessons.
Show Me the Money: Making After-School Programs Possible
In rural Maryland, keeping after-school programs funded is a continual juggling act.
A New Learning Day: After School Is No Afterthought
Learning supplants leisure as the primary focus of after-school programs.
Cool Schools
Acting Up: Philosophy with a Twist
Higher philosophical thinking through drama.
How To: Use Performance-Based Learning in the Classroom
Through dramatic work, students acquire tools for forming clear personal objectives, learn rhetorical strategies to achieve those objectives, and recognize when those strategies have succeeded or failed.
Design
The Bronx Cheers: The Bronx Charter School for the Arts
Students make beautiful music where once the product was kosher salami.
Heart & Soul
Guiding Lights: Novice Educators Pair Up With Veteran Teachers
Mentors keep beleaguered new teachers from fleeing the profession.
Head of Class
The Law of Theories: Understanding the Science Behind Them
The facts are dead, long live the facts.
Hot Stuff: Guides, Games, and More
Innovative resources for teachers.
Field Trips: Events for Educators
Places to go, people to see, things to do.
Bag Lunch: Healthy Meals on the Go
Today's menu.
Hyper, or Hurting?: Treating Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children
What looks like ADHD can be signs of childhood trauma.
14 Percent: Bad Medicine
Let the kids rest.
War Stories: The Uncomfortable Truth
Five important books give a true picture of a brutal subject.
Tech Teacher: Wireless to the Rescue
Setting up a wireless network at your school is a lot easier than you think.
Home Room: Making It Comfortable for Teachers to Stay
Pricey areas tempt teachers with subsidized housing.
