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Table of Contents | April 2006
Editor's Note: Emotional Intelligence
Do emotionally intelligent students have a leg up?
Letters: More Diversity, Please
The Daring Dozen should represent more diversity.
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: Parent Involvement
How do you keep parents involved in their child's education?
Features
Readers' Survey 2006
We asked. You told. The best! The worst! The unexpected!
Risky Business: Industry Invests in Schools
With the economic future of the U.S. tied to our public education system, business leaders are scrambling to push for change.
Class Act: Former Business Executives Put Their Skills to the Test
Top business leaders trade the whiteboard for a blackboard as they attempt to improve urban schools.
Healthier Testing Made Easy: The Idea of Authentic Assessment
Tests don't just measure absorption of facts. They teach what we value.
Cool Schools
Cutting Class: Skipping High School Is OK if You Land at Simon's Rock
The early-college movement thrives at this Massachusetts school.
How To: Use College Methods in High School
Try these methods and techniques that have proven successful in engaging young minds and exercising their critical faculties.
Design
With Schools Like These . . . : Who Wants to Graduate?
Chicago's historical -- and modern -- buildings give rise to stunning high schools.
Building Boats (and Bridges): Experiential Learning as a Link to Native American History
Children construct a traditional canoe like those used by indigenous peoples as part of their exploration of the past.
Heart & Soul
How To: Approach Moral Issues in the Classroom
Students want to talk about the truth. Here are some of the best ways for teachers to help them do so.
Candor in the Class: Looking Back to Go Forward
The Facing History School doesn't sugarcoat our past. It confronts it.
Muse: Escaping from Virtual Reality: Separating Truth from Fiction
The author encourages us to think before we believe.
Head of Class
Resilience: At-Risk Youth Possess It; Now Let's Nurture It
In every wounded child, there is a beautiful chord waiting to be played.
10 Thousand Dollars: It Pays to Be Perfect
School districts offer rewards.
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.
Sub Contractor: Advocate for Itinerant Educators
Substitutes' activist makes temporary teachers permanently happy.
Recess
Pilates Without Perplexity: Calisthenics For the Core
Relax -- keep breathing.
The Old Soft Shoe: Comfy Kicks to Get You There
Classic footwear with sole.
The Charm of Charleston: Port-Of-Call Your Travel Agent
The "kingdom by the sea" remains enchanting.
