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Table of Contents | October 2006
Editor's Note: Keeping Things in Focus
In today's high-tech world, the ability for students to focus takes effort.
Letters: Adding Class
Reminder of an accurate portrayal of an inner city school.
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: Deciding What Students Learn
What factors should drive the curriculum we teach?
Features
Room to Learn: Talk to the Animals
A place of learning can be a room, but it can also be a truck that transforms a room -- any room -- into a jungle/laboratory/art studio.
Pop Quiz: Penn & Teller
One talks. the other doesn't. One's tall. The other's not. One liked school. The other didn't.
Take a Chance . . . Let Them Dance: Validating Artistic Expression
Creativity is a key part of the educated mind.
Celluloid Hero: Bringing Cultural Education to Kids
Filmmaker Ronald Chase uses the power and mystery of cinema to prepare teens for their toughest assignment: real life.
The New Face of Learning: The Internet Breaks School Walls Down
What happens to time-worn concepts of classrooms and teaching when we can now go online and learn anything, anywhere, anytime?
Toss the Traditional Textbook: Revamping a Curriculum
Open source education resources can replace stale old volumes.
Free Radicals: Loosening the Reins on Education
In the country's most alternative classrooms, there's no such thing as a report card.
Cool Schools
Cross Training: Arts and Academics Are Inseparable
At one Boston school, arts and academics are inseparable.
How To: Grow Students' Opportunities Through Private Partnerships
Tips for creating beneficial community relationships.
Design
Grand School: A New Design, a New Year
At Chicago's North Grand High, great design inspires great attitudes.
Heart & Soul
Loss Prevention: Schools Confront Teen Suicide
Taking one's own life is no longer a taboo subject in school.
Head of Class
Wild for Wi-Fi: Connecting the Cell With the Screen
Combining cell phones and the Internet.
Hot Stuff: Good Stuff for Teachers
Helpful resources for educators.
Field Trips: Events for Educators
Places to go, things to do, people to see.
It's Crush Time: The Countryside -- and Wines -- of Northern California
Skip the crowds of Napa Valley and head over to Sonoma's unspoiled Russian River
Personal (Digital) Trainer: iRun, iListen, iHealthy
iTunes, iPhoto, iChat, iMovie, iCal(endar), and now iLife.
Joint Resolution: You Kneed to Read This
Keep your knees together.
Lessons for Sale: Looking For a Cool Curriculum?
Step right up.
33 Percent: Bad Stuff in Schools
Nasty cleaning products in academia.
Online, on Alert: Teaching Students How to Interpret the Web
Most kids believe that if it's on the Internet, it must be true
Pecking Order: Parent Pressure Is Eclipsing Teacher Control
Parental input is always welcome -- but is it always a good thing?
