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Table of Contents | November 2007
Editor's Note: Teachers and Parents as Partners
Bringing teachers into students’ homes builds trust and gets parents into the education process.
Feedback: Talking About Global Warming
Helping students become part of the environmental solution.
Dispatches: Mr. Martin's Oopses: The Best Educators Have Struggled to Learn, Then Succeeded
A teacher must be bad at something to be good at teaching.
Reinventing the Big Test: The Challenge of Authentic Assessment
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: Educating Educators
What would you teach a teacher?
Ask Ellen: English-Language Lagging
How do I help English-language learners catch up for standardized tests?
Pop Quiz: Sela Ward
An interview with the award-winning actress and founder of Hope Village, a program for abused and neglected children.
Features
Building a Better Teacher: Confronting the Crisis in Teacher Training
Innovative schools invent better ways to prep educators for the classroom.
10 Leading Schools Silence the Critics: Innovative Teacher Prep
Pioneering programs show the way to better teacher preparation. Here are our favorites.
Educating Hearts and Minds: An Interview with George Lucas
George Lucas and Daniel Goleman discuss the many ways that social and emotional learning enhance the education process.
Cool Schools
Hula High: Where Everybody Is a Doer
A Hawaiian school mixes indigenous dance and academics to create a local success.
How To: Get Students to Use New Skills
Using a practitioner model to move away from memorizing and encourage depth of learning.
Heart & Soul
Frightening Fiction: New Vigilance on Student Writing Can Yield Clues to Mental Health
Teachers become sentinels as student writing is scrutinized for threats of violence.
Head of Class
Home(room) Grown: An Urban District Taps Teenagers as Prospective Educators
An innovative teacher-prep program starts in high school.
By the Numbers: Dropout Data
A dim economic future lies ahead for high school dropouts and their communities.
The Venetian Bind: The Tides of Floodwaters and Tourism Both Threaten
A controversial flood-control plan in the fabled city portends similar problems worldwide.
Doctor Electric: A Handy Electromagnetic Gadget Stimulates the Brain
Feeling foggy? Take 2 milliamps to the brain and call me in the morning.
Hot Stuff: Storms, Science, and More
Goodies for the teacher and student.
Field Trips: Events for Educators
Places to go, things to do, people to see.
