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Table of Contents | November 2005
Editor's Note: The Multifaceted Role of a Teacher
Teaching often includes a little bit of parenting.
Letters: Will Technology Really Both Change and Amaze Us?
Can the use of technology in schools -- and everywhere else -- change us as human beings?
Dispatches: Give Me a Break: A Teacher's Plea for Pause
Stop the year-round merry-go-round?
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: English-Language Learners
How do you successfully accommodate English-language learners in the classroom?
Features
It Takes a Village: Teenagers Use Community Resources to Pen a Guidebook
High school students published their own field guide with a little help from local organizations.
It's Revolting: School Districts Rebel Against the Education Mandate
The ever-controversial NCLB.
NCLB Confidential: Involving Parents and Teachers Alike
The controversial school-reform bill is not all about tests. Bringing parents and better teachers into the mix is just as important.
No Train, No Gain: Educators Poorly Prepared for ELL Instruction
Professional development for teachers of English-language learners languishes.
Lost in Translation: Reaching Out to English-Language Learners
How do you say, "Tomorrow's assignment is ..." in 460 languages?
Cool Schools
Not Your Father's Voc Ed: High School Classes Reinvented
Career academies bridge the school-to-job gap, while attendance and graduation rates skyrocket.
How To: Become a School-to-Career Entrepreneur
FAQs about the challenge of setting up a school-to-job program.
Design
Small Is BIG: Breaking Down Schools to Break Down Barriers
The way space is organized can give school a powerful sense of community.
Heart & Soul
Familiarity Breeds Content: The Benefits of Looping
Teachers who remain with their classes for more than one year swear by the benefits of bonding.
Muse: Declaration of Independence: Students Caught in the Middle
Between media companies and extremists, kids are being forced into one mold or the other.
Head of Class
41,619 Dollars: A Look at Degrees and Salaries
It pays to go to college.
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.
Pen Pals: 826's Volunteer Writing Coaches
A growing network of workshops gets kids dashing out the door to write.
We the Youth: The Positive Side to Politics
Civics program inspires high school kids before and after graduation.
Recess
Sweater Equity: Get Wrapped Up in These Threads
The redoubtable cardigan sweater.
Caveat Eater: Rice, Bread, Pasta -- Oh My!
Learning to love (again) the much-maligned carbohydrate.
One Sharp Workout: Fence Yourself in (Shape)
Well, you get the point.
Tee Time: Learning to Golf at Sea
Improve your swing as you sail the big waves.
Paddling in Paradise: An Aquatic Adventure in Thailand's Astonishing South
Sometimes the best adventures are the ones you go alone.
