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Table of Contents | November/December 2006
Editor's Note: The Education Century
Too often, the wind is blowing in our face, the conditions are not quite right, and the craft we're piloting seems terribly flimsy. Yet, when it goes airborne, incredible changes result.
Letters: Helicopter Parents
Parents should stay on the heliport.
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: How Could Your School Benefit from $10,000?
If you had $10,000 to spend on your school, how would you spend it?
Features
Pop Quiz: Linda Ellerbee
The award-winning journalist, television producer, and author credits a teacher for her success.
Worldwide Rides: The One-Planet Schoolhouse
For one veteran photographer, all the world's a learning experience.
Getting to Know Them: Paring the World Population Down to Basics
What if it is a small world after all?
It Takes a Planet: Education Is a Common Thread
The world is filled with great ideas about education. Take a look.
Room To Learn: Speak Your Mind
The classroom of departing social studies teacher Rich Kitchens belongs in the Smithsonian.
Bring the Outback In: Distance Learning Down Under
The Alice Springs School of the Air links far-flung Aussies.
Education Abroad: The China Syndrome
Educating a vast student body for modern times, using a system built on five not-so-easy pieces.
Return from Genocide: A Recovering Nation Joins the Wireless World
Rwanda has moved from horror show to a model of wireless connectivity.
Past and Present Accounted For: Learning History One Monument at a Time
The Adopt a Monument program reconnects Italian students with the complex continuum of their history.
Getting Rid of Ritalin: Researchers Battle a Disorder with Biofeedback
In the frenetic Mideast, Israel's schools have developed a new approach to ADHD.
Foreign Intrigue: Living in -- and Loving -- America
A German exchange student reflects on what she learned, and loved, at an American high school.
Global State of the States: Appreciating the World Around You
Global awareness begins at home. Here are standout programs.
Cool Schools
Never Too Young: The International Baccalaureate Program Goes Down a Grade
The IB movement sets the focus on younger classrooms.
Global Superpower: Is the Best of the Best Really the Best?
The unique International Baccalaureate program sparks both admiration and controversy.
Design
Building the Global Best: Captivating Campuses
Presenting the 2006 DesignShare Awards for the finest in international education design and architecture.
Head of Class
Does Dark Matter Matter?: Revisiting the Big Bang and Understanding WIMPs
Shedding new light on the heart of darkness.
Hot Stuff: Resources for Educators
Gadgets and other goodies to help teachers teach.
Field Trips: Events for Educators
Places to go, people to see, things to do.
Higher Learning: Educators Know Best
When big questions are in play, seek out the experts -- teachers.
It's a Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod World: Be the Hippest You Can Be
Evoking a personal style that is part saucy, part proper, and totally brilliant.
Travel Tips: Getting the Most From Your Dollar
Suggestions on how to fly cheap.
60 Percent: Need Geography Lessons
Students need to increase their global awareness.
Wall Flowers: Concrete Canvases Reflect Hispanic Culture
San Francisco's colorful murals are stories of grace and struggle writ large.
Bag Lunch: Healthy Meals on the Go
Today's menu.
Miami Spice: Enjoying the City's Differences
Its charms are both breathtaking and broken down.
Bus Stop: A Faithful Icon Finds a Second Life Overseas
Aging school buses are sent to Congo and other African nations for mass transit duty.
