Table of Contents | February 2007
Editor's Note: The Importance of Play
Today's over-scheduled kids could use some true play time.
Letters: Go Global
Kudos for IBO.
Dispatches: Mind the Gap: The Key to Equal Achievement
The new challenge: No underprivileged child left behind.
Sage Advice: Monument to Teachers
If there were to be a monument to teachers on the Mall in Washington, DC, what should it be?
Pop Quiz: Rob Morrow
The actor tells how his drama teacher helped him turn from the self-destructive ways of his youth.
Features
A New Learning Day: After School Is No Afterthought
Learning supplants leisure as the primary focus of after-school programs.
Gender Matters: Dividing Boys and Girls
Educators battle over single-sex schools.
Reshaping Learning from the Ground Up
Alvin Toffler tells us what's wrong -- and right -- with public education.
Room to Learn: Stark Reality
A teacher returns to a whole new world after Hurricane Katrina destroyed everything around her.
Cool Schools
Acting Up: Philosophy with a Twist
Higher philosophical thinking through drama.
How to Use Performance-Based Learning in the Classroom
Through dramatic work, students acquire tools for forming clear personal objectives, learn rhetorical strategies to achieve those objectives, and recognize when those strategies have succeeded or failed.
Design
The Bronx Cheers: The Bronx Charter School for the Arts
Students make beautiful music where once the product was kosher salami.
Heart and Soul
Guiding Lights: Novice Educators Pair Up With Veteran Teachers
Mentors keep beleaguered new teachers from fleeing the profession.
Head of Class
Home Room: Making It Comfortable for Teachers to Stay
Pricey areas tempt teachers with subsidized housing.
14 Percent: Bad Medicine
Let the kids rest.
War Stories: The Uncomfortable Truth
Five important books give a true picture of a brutal subject.
Tech Teacher: Wireless to the Rescue
Setting up a wireless network at your school is a lot easier than you think.
Treating Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children
What looks like ADHD can be signs of childhood trauma.
Bag Lunch: Healthy Meals on the Go
Today's menu.
The Law of Theories: Understanding the Science Behind Them
The facts are dead, long live the facts.
Hot Stuff: Guides, Games, and More
Innovative resources for teachers.
Field Trips: Events for Educators
Places to go, people to see, things to do.
