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Table of Contents | April 2008
Up Front: Well-Chosen Words
The emphasis on standardized testing is muzzling the teaching of self-expression.
Feedback: Technology as a Tool
Seeing tech as enhancer, not replacer.
Dispatches: Childhood's End: Growing Up Too Fast
Something is lost when little red wagons and mud pies make way for worksheets and tests.
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: Living the Teaching Dream
What is your dream teaching assignment?
Ask Ellen: Can Common Tests Assess Uncommon Kids?
Standardized assessments can't evaluate all kinds of learners.
Pop Quiz: Jack Prelutsky
The first U.S. Children's Poet Laureate reflects on his school years.
Features
Reinventing the Big Test: The Challenge of Authentic Assessment
Problem: Old-school accountability tests are crude measurements of student learning.
Solution: Build a better test.
The Daring Dozen 2008: Our Heroes
Twelve who are reshaping the future of education.
Cool Schools
Treasured Island: Giving Students Real Skills and Real Responsibilities
A tiny offshore Maine school's self-sufficiency makes it an inspirational island apart.
How To: Raise the Educational Stakes with Project Learning
Beef up the real-world consequences of student projects in every grade.
Design
Forward Thinking: 2007 DesignShare Awards Honor the Best in School Design
Three exemplary schools reveal the shape of things to come.
Heart & Soul
Serious Fun: A New Twist on a Touchy Subject -- Sex
A hip and homespun podcast about sex education is a hit with teens.
Head of Class
Copy Wrongs: Teachers Looking Online for Material, Be Warned
Know what you can -- and can't -- download for the classroom.
By the Numbers: Teen Ethics
An alarming number of teens surveyed condone violence.
Bag Lunch: An American Institution
Oven-fried chicken, orzo salad, and power bars.
Fashionable Feasts: Lunch Box 2.0
Bye-bye, brown bag. Hello, hot lunch.
Hot Stuff: Media for Educators
Chicken soup for the classroom soul, world peace through film, strategies for struggling readers, and creating your own online comics.
Field Trips: Events For Educators
Conferences on ed-tech, charter schools, developmental and learning disabilities, phys ed, new media, summer learning, IRA, and a math conference featuring Malcolm Gladwell.
