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The News Literacy Project helps secondary school students separate fact from fiction online.11/4/09
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Digest these tips for making your food-service program tasty and sustainable.
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Schools overhaul food service to improve student health and the environment.10/28/09
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Despite absences at an inner-city school, a teacher commits to long-term projects.8/31/09
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A charter school in the Mojave Desert charts the heavens.8/31/09
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8/5/09
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An after-school project earns New York City kids academic credits and an inside look at their urban environment.8/3/09
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Let's keep teaching creativity throughout school and adulthood.5/27/09
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The hip-hop singer and music producer weighs in on social networking, online media tools, and the Peapod Foundation.
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Through slam poetry, students reach new heights in literacy and in life.5/5/09
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For project learning to be most effective, students must understand how to work together.4/29/09
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Elementary school students take a stand against paper waste.4/22/09
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Teachers and trainers divulge their secrets for a successful project: Plan ahead, know your subject matter, and be flexible.3/25/09
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Project-learning teaching strategies can also improve your everyday classroom experience.3/11/09
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A nonprofit group's summer and after-school programs support a Georgia school district's curriculum.2/25/09
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Turn pandemonium into productivity by harnessing tech tools and cultivating self-directed students.2/18/09
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An international stargazing event inspires young scientists.1/28/09
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Tips on getting the most out of National Novel Writing Month.1/28/09
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Meet NaNoWriMo, a nationwide program that in which students write novels -- for fun.1/28/09
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Learn more about Build SF program participants.1/20/09
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Learn more about Build SF program participants.1/20/09
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Students develop a deeper understanding of science while making a significant contribution to the scientific community.1/20/09
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Learn more about Build SF program participants.1/20/09
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All of the programs in our New Day for Learning, Part Two, series have undergone outside evaluation to either gauge their success, improve performance, or both.1/20/09
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Learn more about Build SF program participants.1/20/09
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Learn more about Build SF program participants.1/20/09
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A district leaps into the digital world.12/3/08
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Students prepare for the real world through technology-enabled projects.12/3/08
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Our future success depends on our cooperative agility.12/3/08
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The San Diego charter school wants educators worldwide to benefit from its lessons.12/3/08
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William Yuan earns a $25,000 fellowship in an Oregon school district's laboratory.12/3/08
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Marketers and educators offer branding advice to boost the cool factor for full-time learning programs.11/23/08
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Nearly 300 public schools in twenty states teach with farms or gardens.
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Urban students on the verge of quitting scale new heights -- and remain in school -- through an ambitious program.10/8/08
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Cooperative learning and inquiry-based teaching yield big dividends in the classroom. And now we have the research to prove it.10/8/08
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It's not all a zero-sum game.10/8/08
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The economic crisis signals that schools need to get in the business of teaching money matters.10/7/08
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Student-run credit union branches teach career skills and financial independence.10/7/08
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An economics educator teaches his students to be smart money managers and businesspeople.10/2/08
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Students at the Y-PLAN project create bonds through grassroots city planning.9/29/08
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Entrepreneur lessons lead to financial know-how.9/28/08
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Questions abound about the inquiry-based teaching approach. Here are answers, from how to meet standards to how to keep control of the classroom.9/3/08
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The Internet offers teaching tools on economics for any grade level.8/22/08
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Plan your first lesson with these online resources.8/13/08
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Theater projects make students invest in their writing.8/6/08
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Learn how to turn a cardboard box, disposable cameras, and kids' natural curiosity into an academically rich project-learning program.7/30/08
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These unusual substitute teachers offer a day of curriculum-expanding fun to schools -- free.7/23/08
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Algebra students use their math skills to control the arc of launched objects.
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Middle school students follow a climber's journey up Mount Everest via satellite Internet while they engage in related activities in the classroom.7/16/08
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Legal challenges may shutter a popular literacy-project Web site.7/9/08
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This event on do-it-yourself projects offers ample fodder for classroom STEM activities.7/2/08
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Follow along for a multidimensional literary adventure.6/12/08
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The Animal Planet host talks the talk of ecology and environmental preservation.5/26/08
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A traveling marine biologist in a snappy sharkmobile fosters stewardship for the ocean's fragile ecosystem.5/25/08
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High tech auto safety starts when kids can barely reach the brakes.
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An inspiration in New York City creates life-enhancing change in a New Orleans prison school.5/23/08
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Find surprising teaching opportunities for hands-on learning in underresourced areas.5/21/08
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The Freedom Project uses the hard-fought history of racial equality to inspire power and perseverance.5/21/08
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This Bronx school turns the courtroom into a classroom.5/19/08
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A New York City middle school teacher gives students a close-up look at the art and science of television weather reporting.5/8/08
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Teachers have begun to accept comic books as a tool for teaching literacy through group projects.5/8/08
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A biology-class project teaches high school students about the real-life application of DNA testing in wrongful-conviction cases.5/5/08
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A California charter school is teaching essential skills -- and self-reliance.4/24/08
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One high school's new project-learning program is piquing students' interest in higher education and building their critical-thinking skills.4/18/08
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Beef up the real-world consequences of student projects in every grade.3/20/08
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A tiny offshore Maine school's self-sufficiency makes it an inspirational island apart.3/20/08
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To improve learning as well as the planet, K-12 schools have become front-runners in greening a new generation of school buildings.3/11/08
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A high school opens a tax office, and students run the show.3/4/08
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Students become conduits between history and a person's life.3/4/08
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Project learning helps students apply what they learn to real-life experiences and provides an all-around enriching education.2/28/08
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Discussing books creates a full learning process for students.
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Students balance enjoyment with preservation in this adaptable lesson from the Yosemite Institute.2/19/08
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A classroom store teaches young students about money while reinforcing math skills.2/12/08
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Teach children a global lesson by donating books and other needed supplies to schools around the world.1/22/08
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Teenagers enroll in an art course that puts them to work in a professional craft shop that builds beasts. More to this story.1/22/08
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Project-based learning has replaced grim Communist Party pronouncements at the core of the Russian schoolroom.1/11/08
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A classroom doubles as a special effects tech studio, and students go pro.1/10/08
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When a high school art class becomes a professional special effects studio, students learn creative problem solving while developing personally and professionally.1/10/08
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A Colorado school's slogan finds its rhythm in the laboratory and stokes student passion to learn.1/10/08
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Whether you and your students pay a real visit or a remote one, America's natural treasures offer a wealth of learning resources.
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Teachers use a practitioner model to move away from memorizing and encourage depth of learning.11/20/07
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A Hawaiian school mixes indigenous dance and academics to create a local success.11/20/07
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Milton Chen discusses with a former school superintendent the radical changes in education that must occur to meet the twenty-first-century needs of our society.
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The day after an environmental disaster in San Francisco Bay, students visiting the Crissy Field Center learn how feathers respond to oil.
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An innovative teacher-prep program starts in high school.11/14/07
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Creatures in the classroom teach science and respect.10/9/07
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Tap into the Web and learn how to preserve our planet -- and help others learn how, too.10/9/07
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Tips to engage students.10/9/07
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Open your classroom to a menagerie of living science projects.10/3/07
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A classroom dedicated to energy conservation runs on ethics, hard work, dreams, and a kid-powered bicycle.10/3/07
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A teacher's passion for the environment inspires not only her students but also their parents and the entire school.10/2/07
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Try these great lesson ideas for environmentally conscious teachers (and their lucky students).10/2/07
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Student researchers become the eyes and ears of environmental scientists.10/2/07
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Follow these tips for making your school more environmentally friendly.10/2/07
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At Clackamas High School, green ideals infuse the curricula, the building, and, most importantly, the students.10/2/07
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A Philadelphia career academy fosters a drive to learn.
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School-to-career education prepares students for collars of all colors.9/4/07
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An arcane science turns into a traveling circus that’s fizzy, frantic, and fun.8/31/07
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A social studies teacher uses photo journals to make learning more personal and immediate for her students.
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A Chicago Public Schools program makes enrichment programs for teens meaningful.
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Seven accomplished people share their personal stories.
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In directing the electric-car team at West Philadelphia High School’s Academy of Applied Automotive and Mechanical Science, teacher and program administrator Simon Hauger puts classroom concepts into action off campus and off the clock. It is an approach that can be more informal and interactive than what happens in school, but it offers its own challenges for teacher preparation.6/18/07
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The music of language provided the rhythm for an opera career.
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Reading the lives of the greats provided inspiration and foundation.
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One woman's passion leads to a creative haven for these students.6/14/07
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The restaurateur's education was served at the table, not at a desk.
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Photography is a revelation, and a learning tool, for visually impaired students.6/14/07
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Modern technology cracks the code of "the world's first computer."6/14/07
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From her sister's mistake in choosing a path, the journalist found hers.
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The seed for Lemony Snicket was planted at a young age.
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An Indianapolis school district builds a new model for education.5/17/07
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This physics classroom is all about the loud, the mysterious, and the thrilling.5/17/07
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Expeditionary learning puts the focus on student investigations -- and a Kansas City district embraces it.
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The Auburn Early Education Center immerses young children in self-directed projects.5/9/07
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Who says successful documentarians can't also be teenagers?
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Edutopia readers weigh in on their favorites.
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Edutopia readers weigh in on their favorites.
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Foster-care kids explore their environment and themselves through art.4/30/07
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A Baltimore school strives to "produce students that change the world."4/19/07
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Farming -- and dessert -- at California's Pie Ranch.3/13/07
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Understanding the concept and benefits of "place" in education.3/9/07
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Counselors debate the need to declare a major in high school.3/9/07
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The Build San Francisco Institute is devoted to the architecture of building adults.3/8/07
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Successful educational projects that focus on the community share key characteristics.2/2/07
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An in-depth look at the impressive work of aviation students.2/2/07
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A project-based-learning teacher and coach writes about "the most effective tool for organizing content and motivating students to think hard."2/1/07
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The IB movement sets the focus on younger classrooms.12/11/06
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The unique International Baccalaureate program sparks both admiration and controversy.12/11/06
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An educational package to add to the curriculum.10/19/06
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These articles feature accounts of students engaging in environmental education, conservation efforts, and other initiatives to protect our ecosystems.10/19/06
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Murray Fisher, founder of the New York Harbor School, offers advice on keeping an extraordinary school going, despite philosophical and financial challenges.10/19/06
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At the New York Harbor School, great things are expected of the students. And the students deliver.10/19/06
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Guitar-strumming teachers lead to engaged kids.10/19/06
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Why choose mathematics in high school? Here's why.10/19/06
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An evolving teaching method applies the theory and practice of art to computing and problem solving.10/18/06
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Options abound for going off script.10/18/06
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At the Oxbow School, the arts and research magically interweave.10/18/06
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Fun pet tricks.10/18/06
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A list of programs nationwide to help you get started on your search for a workshop, conference, or institute.10/18/06
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Our audience has spoken -- check out your top-ten Edutopia articles and videos.10/18/06
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Project-based learning teaches kids the collaborative and critical-thinking abilities they'll need to compete.10/18/06
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These articles and videos will put you in the Earth Day spirit.4/18/06
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Children construct a traditional canoe like those used by indigenous peoples as part of their exploration of the past.4/2/06
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The early-college movement thrives at this Massachusetts school.4/2/06
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Try these methods and techniques that have proven successful in engaging young minds and exercising their critical faculties.4/2/06
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The Facing History School doesn't sugarcoat our past. It confronts it.4/2/06
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From planting seeds to recycling cafeteria leftovers, students learn the cycle of life in gardens.3/1/06
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A high school hatchery protects endangered species and demands academic excellence.2/1/06
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The United Anglers of Casa Grande High School serve as guardians of Adobe Creek.2/1/06
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Fighting urban blight with teenage might.2/1/06
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What's more fun than unraveling a mystery in the classroom?12/2/05
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In Chicago's urban sprawl, an environmentally friendly school blooms.12/2/05
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Career academies bridge the school-to-job gap, while attendance and graduation rates skyrocket.10/23/05
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Students who cross the bridge from school to career.10/4/05
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An interest in aeronautics leads students to Aviation High School, where academic pursuits can really take flight.9/25/05
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Whether you want to develop your own theme-based school, or just a theme-based curriculum within your school, here are a few issues to keep high on your radar.9/25/05
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Students step back in time at the nation's most enduring one-room schoolhouse.8/10/05
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Get the subject out of the textbook and into your students' world.8/10/05
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Kids aren't helping plow the fields anymore, so why are we throwing away three months?6/1/05
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Sometimes, drawing beats drilling when it comes to learning.5/31/05
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Kids can be card sharks when it comes to teaching nutrition.5/31/05
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The boob tube doesn't have to be a brain drain if you ask the right questions.5/31/05
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Introduce students to the original board of education.5/31/05
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Sometimes the most learning is done when adults stay quiet.3/23/05
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Mobile museums are mostly free and always fun.3/23/05
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A data-collection program brings real science to school -- and startles the professionals.3/8/05
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A step-by-step guide to bringing a NatureMapping project to your school and getting students excited about maps and science.3/8/05
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Thanks to a forward-thinking teacher, chemistry students quickly learn to love leaving the textbook behind.2/8/05
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Nine tips to help you get started teaching without textbooks.2/8/05
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How one school opens minds by leaving the country.2/8/05
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It's important, sometimes, to just let things be.2/8/05
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The Wetland Watchers program is part of a schoolwide emphasis on service learning.12/15/04
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The author explores the possible reasons why humans think and communicate the way we do.11/11/04
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Nothing excites a kid's curiosity like a trip to a nearby graveyard.11/10/04
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No longer limited to the classroom, educators move to close the gap between school and the real world.11/10/04
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At this high school, everyone is a winner.11/10/04
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Students at the International School of the Americas acquire a global overview in their education.10/13/04
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The best way to motivate seniors who've cut their jets is to treat them like adults.9/13/04
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Music education nourishes the mind as well as the soul.9/13/04
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How three high school teachers discovered a new way to teach.
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A Louisiana school succeeds by emphasizing social and emotional teamwork.6/16/04
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An innovative program teaches kids it's never too early to learn a foreign language.3/26/04
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When students are given the freedom to choose their projects, the quality of work -- and student pride -- soars.11/5/03
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This school within a school puts the emphasis on academics and a future career.9/30/03
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The Fremont High School Business Academy, in Oakland, California, a small learning environment operating within a larger school, educates entrepreneurs.9/2/03
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The teachers and community -- and a large dose of technology -- come together to save this New Jersey school district.1/24/03
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At Minneapolis's School of Environmental Studies, learning is about becoming an expert and solving real problems.9/25/02
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Students in Maryland participate in a countrywide science experiment.6/5/02
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These online initiatives seek to enhance global understanding.6/5/02
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With the help of technology and encouraged by curiosity, students learn about and connect with kids across the globe.6/5/02
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The First Peoples' Project enables native children around the world to exchange lore and learning online.6/5/02
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George Lucas reflects on the promise of the Internet as a resource for bringing learners together.5/1/02
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When learning is based on projects, math becomes relevant as well as rigorous.2/11/02
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Teens design their own ideal school environment.2/11/02
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Fifth graders solve real out-of-this-world problems in the Space Day design-challenge program.12/3/01
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An experiental project not only makes science fun but also gives kids the confidence to go after their dreams.12/3/01
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The FIRST program is all about inspiring and motivating students to become engaged in math, science, engineering, and technology.12/3/01
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In this classroom, children use concrete, authentic examples to illustrate core knowledge.11/1/01
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At the West Hawaii Explorations Academy, students learn through a project-based curriculum.11/1/01
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At this charter school in Hawaii, students build electric cars from start to finish and, in the process, learn how to practically apply what they learn to everyday life.11/1/01
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Research shows the efficacy of an authentic form of education that expects students to immerse themselves in a topic and meaningfully demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge.11/1/01
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How parents can encourage and support their child -- and their child's school -- in project-based learning.11/1/01
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How teachers can implement, advocate, and support project-based learning.11/1/01
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What administrators can do to support project-based learning.11/1/01
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How policy makers can support project-based learning.11/1/01
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How businesses can help promote and support project-based learning in local schools.11/1/01
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At this New York middle school, every student gets a laptop to help extend the boundaries of education.11/1/01
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At Newsome Park Elementary School, assignments in project-based learning are helping students learn more, participate more, and want more.9/30/01
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A conversation with Richard Kazis, senior vice president of Jobs for the Future.6/30/01
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Understanding the 1994 School-to-Work Opportunities Act.6/30/01
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The idea of looping classrooms is on the rise. Here's why.3/30/01
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Resources for those interested in school-to-career programs.2/22/01
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This simple antigravity lesson teaches kids why their feet stay on the ground.8/31/00
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When students are given the opportunity to create content for the Web, they also discover a whole new dimension in education.5/31/00
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An interview with the faculty and students on how this restructured school continues to teach students how to meet and exceed their own expectations.4/30/00
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Faculty, administration, and a community combine efforts to create an outstanding school.4/30/00
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Your questions about this successful career-preparation program -- answered.4/30/00
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The authors walk us through an idyllic -- though imaginary -- school.6/30/97
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One student's review on the benefits of project-based learning.6/30/97
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Giving students freedom to learn creates an energized environment.6/30/97
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Creating a smooth transition from school to career is this headmaster's goal for her students.6/30/97
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Students learn about their community and local culture through hands-on projects.6/30/97
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Innovative education in a Florida elementary school.6/30/97
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This Illinois high school uses an innovative method for finding answers.6/30/97
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A school administration in Oregon puts the occupational-cluster program to work -- and sees positive results.6/30/97
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The JASON Project brings science and exploration to kids through an innovative use of technology.6/30/97
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This Wisconsin program helps lower the high-school dropout rate while giving kids hope for their future.6/30/97
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This Minnesota middle school applies the theory of multiple intelligences to its curriculum to give students a well-rounded education.6/30/97
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A program that prepares high school students for their future.6/30/97
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An innovative idea of the '60s is growing in popularity.6/30/97
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An innovative program improves achievement overall.6/30/97
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An internship program in Maine helps students prepare for their chosen career.6/30/97
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This maverick Texas-based school exemplifies the benefits of project learning.6/30/97
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A unique program in Portland, Oregon, gives students a jump-start on their future.6/30/97
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This early teacher-recruitment program introduces minority middle school students to the world of teaching.6/30/97
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Getting a head start on teacher preparation.6/30/97
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This Delaware school helps students realize their career goals.6/30/97
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At Shorecrest High, these two students joined the school-to-work program -- with some outstanding results.6/30/97
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Students speak freely about education.12/1/93
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