Table of Contents | Nov 2007: Schools of Education

Editor's Note: Teachers and Parents as Partners

Bringing teachers into students’ homes builds trust and gets parents into the education process.

Feedback: Talking About Global Warming

Helping students become part of the environmental solution.

Dispatches: Mr. Martin's Oopses: The Best Educators Have Struggled to Learn, Then Succeeded

A teacher must be bad at something to be good at teaching.

Sage Advice: Educating Educators

What would you teach a teacher?

Features

Confronting the Crisis in Teacher Training

Innovative schools of education invent better ways to prep educators for the classroom.

10 Leading Schools Silence the Critics: Innovative Teacher Prep

Pioneering programs show the way to better teacher preparation. Here are our favorites.

Educating Hearts and Minds: An Interview with George Lucas

George Lucas and Daniel Goleman discuss the many ways that social and emotional learning enhance the education process.

Pop Quiz: Sela Ward

An interview with the award-winning actress and founder of Hope Village, a program for abused and neglected children.

Heart and Soul

Frightening Fiction: New Vigilance on Student Writing Can Yield Clues to Mental Health

Teachers become sentinels as student writing is scrutinized for threats of violence.

Head of Class

Home(room) Grown: An Urban District Taps Teenagers as Prospective Educators

An innovative teacher-prep program starts in high school.

By the Numbers: Dropout Data

A dim economic future lies ahead for high school dropouts and their communities.

Doctor Electric: A Handy Electromagnetic Gadget Stimulates the Brain

Feeling foggy? Take 2 milliamps to the brain and call me in the morning.

The Venetian Bind: The Tides of Floodwaters and Tourism Both Threaten

A controversial flood-control plan in the fabled city portends similar problems worldwide.

Hot Stuff: Storms, Science, and More

Goodies for the teacher and student.

Field Trips: Events for Educators

Places to go, things to do, people to see.

Ask Ellen: English-Language Lagging

How do I help English-language learners catch up for standardized tests?

Cool Schools

Hula Dancing Brings Students Closer to Native Culture

A Hawaiian school mixes indigenous dance and academics to create a local success.

How to Get Students to Use New Skills

Using a practitioner model to move away from memorizing and encourage depth of learning.