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Table of Contents | June 2008
Up Front: What Works in Public Education
Together, we can save our schools.
Feedback: Useful Skepticism
Big concerns about the big test.
Dispatches: Beat the Cheat: Teaching Students (and Parents) It's Not OK to Copy
When a teacher takes a stand against plagiarism, the ensuing showdown can be painful.
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: Getting IT Right in the Classroom
What kind of tech support do you have at your school?
Ask Ellen: TLC Through PLCs
Professional learning communities enhance knowledge and teamwork.
Pop Quiz: Jeff Corwin
The Animal Planet host talks the talk of ecology and environmental preservation.
Features
Young Minds, Fast Times: The Twenty-First-Century Digital Learner
How tech-obsessed iKids would improve our schools.
All the Right Moves: Fresh Methods to Keep Kids Active
Roll over, dodgeball. Bold new activities put the fizz back in phys ed.
Shark Tale: Learning to Treasure the Ancient, Endangered, and Misunderstood Predator
A traveling marine biologist in a snappy sharkmobile fosters stewardship for the ocean's fragile ecosystem.
Cool Schools
Rigor and (Civil) Rights: Helping Mississippi Students See Beyond the Delta
The Freedom Project uses the hard-fought history of racial equality to inspire power and perseverance.
How To: Build Instruction Around Your Region's History
Find surprising teaching opportunities for hands-on learning in underresourced areas.
Design
Big Easy, Meet the Big Apple: New York City's Cooper-Hewitt Museum Reaches out to New Orleans Schools
From devastated New Orleans they came, to learn and to heal.
Heart & Soul
Room to Grow: A School on the Subcontinent Celebrates Creativity and Environmentalism
In the hardscrabble farmlands of rural India, dance and song help build pride for impoverished children.
Head of Class
Get in Gear: A Tech-Driven Twist on Drivers' Ed
High tech auto safety starts when kids can barely reach the brakes.
By the Numbers: Math Anathema
The experts (and most kids) declare U.S. math education "broken."
Immunity Gap: A Growing Number of Concerned Parents Exempt Children from Required Shots
As more parents refuse vaccines for their kids, health officials worry.
Hack Attack: Do-It-Yourself Projects Enhance Learning
Some inexpensive tech tricks yield big classroom dividends.
Paean to Poetry: An Island of Sanity Amid the Daily Media Storm
Garrison Keillor brings stanza and sonnet to life with the Writer's Almanac radio show.
Hot Stuff: Media for Educators
G-rated search, a browser for autistic children, free online ecology and alternative-energy games, electronic science labs, and a new, affordable, lightweight PC.
Field Trips: Events for Educators
Find out how game playing enhances learning, plus the Public Charter School conference, the NECC's national ed-tech blowout, and more.
