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.

Dispatches: QT on the AAP!: Or, Quiet on the Acronyms and Pseudonyms

Have a child in school? You may need a translator.

Sage Advice: Effective Technology

What technology is most effective in the classroom?

Features

Connecting to the 21st-Century Student

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

Media Literacy Is Vital in the Age of the Image

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

Cool Schools

Going Sky High: Students Take Learning to New Levels

An interest in aeronautics leads students to Aviation High School, where academic pursuits take flight.

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.

Design

Way Beyond Fuddy-Duddy: New Libraries Bring Out the Best in Students

Good things happen when the library is the place kids want to be.

Heart and Soul

Grounded: A Lack of Funds, and NCLB, Can Mean Fewer Field Trips

Budget cuts and test-score mania mean fewer field trips -- and fewer connections to the outside world.

Muse: Teaching Character: Learning From Memorable Mentors

Sometimes it's not what you learn, but how you learn it.

Head of Class

Flight School: Educators Get Their Heads in the Clouds

Teachers go airborne, get weightless, and pump up their students.

Extra Credit: Goodies for the Teacher and Student

Great things for class -- tested in our secret underground labs.

Field Trips: Events for Educators

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

Easy Reading: A Breakthrough for the Reading Disabled

A new font for dyslexics makes sentences a snap.

Recess

Highway Hues: You Won't Feel Blue on This Vacation

The Blue Ridge Parkway's autumnal foliage beckons.

The Mild Ones: Scooters Make Sense

Ditch your SUV for one of these gas-saving, easy-to-park rides.

Kickin' It: Adults Can Play, Too

Kickball games aren't just for kids.

Like History?: Ten Great (Nontextbook) History Books

Discover the allure of events past with these classy chronicles.

To Sleep . . . Perchance?: The Benefit of a Good Night's Rest

No snooze is definitely not good snooze.