Table of Contents | November 2007
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?
Ask Ellen: English-Language Lagging
How do I help English-language learners catch up for standardized tests?
Pop Quiz: Sela Ward
An interview with the award-winning actress and founder of Hope Village, a program for abused and neglected children.
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.
Cool Schools
Hula High: Where Everybody Is a Doer
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.
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.
