Table of Contents | September 2006
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?
Pop Quiz: Dolly Parton
The musician's Imagination Library sends a new book to more than a quarter-million preschoolers each month.
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.
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
A Kid's-Eye View: School Redesign Where Student Needs Come First
Smart architecture scaled down for Munchkin-size Mainers.
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.
