Table of Contents | October 2005

Editor's Note: Growing Up Tech

Most kids today have never known a world without the Internet.

Letters: Changing How Students Feel About Learning

Some ideas on how to change students' outlook on education.

Previous Issues

The February 2008 issue includes Math and Science Rock: Hands-On Learning Is Music to Students' Ears -- and Minds, As the World Learns: Education as a Vital Global Marketplace Represents the Future, Programming: The New Literacy, and much more!

The November 2007 issue includes Educating Hearts and Minds: An Interview with George Lucas, Building a Better Teacher: Confronting the Crisis in Teacher Training, 10 Leading Schools Silence the Critics: Innovative Teacher Prep, and much more!

The October 2007 issue includes Kids Count: Young Citizen-Scientists Learn Environmental Activism, Taking It to the Class: Green Projects for the Classroom, Green Heroes: Activists for the Environment, and much more!

September 2007
Little Shop of Physics: A Mobile Hands-On Science Program Captivates

July 2007
Room to Learn: Trailer Bash

June 2007
Room To Learn: Mystery Science Theater

April 2007
Where Have All the Principals Gone?: The Acute School-Leader Shortage

March 2007
Intelligent Design: Immersing Students in Civic Education

February 2007
A New Learning Day: After School Is No Afterthought

November/December 2006
It Takes a Planet: Education Is a Common Thread

October 2006
Free Radicals: Loosening the Reins on Education

September 2006
Kimberly Oliver: National Teacher of the Year

July 2006
Taking Back the Class: Teach to the Test? No Way!

June 2006
Summer School Nation: Vivid Vacation Pursuits

April 2006
Readers' Survey 2006

March 2006
The Daring Dozen: 2006

February 2006
Why Johnny (Still) Can't Read: Schools Meet the Challenge of Producing Teen Readers

December 2005
Fighting for Fitness: Educational Institutions Step into the Ring

November 2005
Lost in Translation: Reaching Out to English-Language Learners

October 2005
Synching Up with the iKid: Connecting to the Twenty-First-Century Student

September 2005
Time Out: Rethinking the Hours America Spends Educating

June 2005
What Works: Using Our Time Wisely to Support and Improve Public Education

April 2005
F for Assessment: Standardized Testing Fails

February 2005
Brave New School: Teaching Disabled and Nondisabled Students Together

November 2004
The Daring Dozen 2004

September 2004
Full House: As Las Vegas Grows, So Does the Need to Accommodate Its Students

Sage Advice: Effective Technology

What technology is most effective in the classroom?

Features

Tech Made Easy: Keeping It Simple in the Classroom

It's not all about gadgets and gear.

Visually Speaking: Keeping the Arts Alive

A new language of visual literacy and expression has taken hold. Now its time to add it to the classroom.

No More Books: Laptops Take the Lead

PCs replace textbooks at one forward-thinking school.

Extracurricular Learning: Media as a Medium in Education

Technology use outside of class results in self-tutoring and shared results.

Reality Bytes: Student Filmmakers Tell It Like It Is

Digital learners have their own tech tales to tell.

Tech Savvy at Seventeen: Tech Integration for Students -- By a Student

A high school senior proves the power of gadgets in the classroom.

Synching Up with the iKid: Connecting to the Twenty-First-Century Student

Educators must work to understand and motivate a new kind of digital learner.

Cool Schools

How To: Build a Theme-Based Curriculum

Whether you want to develop your own theme-based school, or just a theme-based curriculum within your school, here are a few issues to keep high on your radar.