Table of Contents | Sep 2006: What's Next?

Editor's Note: Happy Anniversary, Edutopia

Positive changes abound as we celebrate the magazine's second year.

Letters: Taking Back the Class

How teachers are fighting to get their jobs back.

Dispatches: Do the Math: The Importance of Making Friends with Numbers

Why choose mathematics in high school? Here's why.

Sage Advice: What's the Most Commonly Asked Question in the Classroom?

Features

What's Next: 2006

Our predictions -- and resolutions -- for the new (school) year.

Kimberly Oliver: National Teacher of the Year

This educator believes in the power of one.

Common Ground: Teaching Kids the Benefits Of Working Together

Cooperative learning helps create the essential skill of working (and compromising) within a group.

Pop Quiz: Dolly Parton

The musician's Imagination Library sends a new book to more than a quarter-million preschoolers each month.

Heart and Soul

Mediation, Not Metal Detectors: Kids Learn to Talk it Out

Security work is social work at a Boston-area high school.

Head of Class

String Fever: Guitars in the Classroom

Guitar-strumming teachers lead to engaged kids.

90 Percent: White Teachers

Educators of color are not in as many classrooms.

Read: Don't Believe

Beer's good for the prostate, and other great medical-report whoppers.

Bag Lunch: Healthy Meals on the Go

Today's menu.

Tube Teachers: Television Isn't All That Bad

Since the days of tiny black-and-white screens, television has been drawn to the world of education.

Tions and Ligers and Geeps: Oh, My!

Biology brews a new bestiary.

Desktop of Fun: Goodies to Make You Smile

A few workspace reminders of summer.

Hot Stuff: Helpful Materials

Gadgets and other resources to help teachers teach.

Field Trips: Events for Educators

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

Cool Schools

Safe Harbor: Education By Land, Mostly By Sea

At the New York Harbor School, great things are expected of the students. And the students deliver.

How to Keep A Maritime-Themed School Afloat

Murray Fisher, founder of the New York Harbor School, offers advice on keeping an extraordinary school going, despite philosophical and financial challenges.

Design

School Redesign Where Students Come First

Smart architecture scaled down for Munchkin-size Mainers.