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.