What Works in Public Education

Edutopia Special Reports

Explore these detailed, wide-ranging examinations of key educational topics and issues.

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One of the ways Edutopia delivers information and resources about what works in public education is its Special Reports, arrays of content -- articles, polls, videos, slide shows, and more -- that provide many points of access to delve into a complex subject.

After-School Learning

After-School Learning

Our coverage of each after-school program includes sample lessons, as well as articles, videos, contacts, and other in-depth materials.


Arts Education

Arts Education

Edutopia paints a bright picture of how schools are forging innovative community partnerships to bring rich, academically integrated arts curriculum to their students.


Autism

Autism

As the number of special-needs students soars, schools grapple with ways to offer high-quality education without going broke.


Collaboration

Collaboration

Information age, rest in pieces. This is the Collaboration Age! We can all connect instantly across time zones and oceans. Previously impossible partnerships now produce startling innovations. And the four walls of your classroom no longer limit your students' reach.


Digital Generation

Digital Generation

Edutopia's in-depth coverage of students from around the country reveals how young people are using new media to learn, communicate, and socialize in new and exciting ways.


Economic Stimulus

Economic Stimulus

Operation: Save Our Schools is in deployment mode. Read experts' proposals for how to spend the funds, and find out how schools around the country are using technology in innovative ways even without the big bucks.


Financial Literacy

Financial Literacy

From student entrepreneurship to student-run credit union branches, the topics in these articles and other resources cover hands-on activities and real-world projects in economics, money management, and business skills.


Global Learning

Global Learning

Find out how students are taught in places as different as Austria and Uganda, Chile and Pakistan. Some foreign educational systems may inspire innovations in American education; others describe unique situations that nevertheless broaden and deepen our knowledge of what works best a world away from our schools.


Green Education

Green Education

Students, teachers, administrators, and environmental activists have found ways to integrate knowledge and awareness of Earth's fragility with classwork and community service, carefully blending concern with action to help kids feel engaged and hopeful.


Green Schools

Green Schools

Discover how schools are greening themselves with healthy food-service programs and environmentally friendly products and retrofitting.


Multiple Intelligences

Multiple Intelligences

Articles and video on the resurgent relevance of Howard Gardner's ground-breaking theory, which changed the game for students and teachers.


Physical Education

Physical Education

Innovative approaches to PE focus on fitness and introduce the excitement of climbing walls, zip lines, and acrobatics as well as the more soothing appeal of yoga and tai chi.


Predictions for Public Education

Predictions for Public Education

Heading into the wild blue yonder of a new school year, we know that some things are inevitable. There will be more to do than last year, and less time to get it done. But what further developments lay ahead? Take a look at the predictions for the future of public education.


Readers' Survey

Readers' Survey

The 2008 Edutopia Readers' Survey shares insider knowledge from community-building strategies to technology tools. We collated the most popular replies and valuable tips.


Schools of Education

Schools of Education

Teacher-preparation programs are responding to the increasingly complex needs of new teachers, and we profile ten of the most innovative exemplars.


Schools That Work

Schools That Work: YES Prep

This Houston charter school has created a school culture in which failure is not an option.


The Waldorf Way

The Waldorf Way

Public schools inspired by Rudolf Steiner's Waldorf method are on the rise as parents seek relief from the high-stakes testing culture.

This article originally published on 4/9/2009

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