What's Next: The Top Topics in Teaching and Learning This Year
As the school year begins, we look to the future and at ten ideas to improve education.

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- NCLB: Law and Evolution
- Merit Pay: For Love and Money (Sidebar: California Dreamer: The Golden State's Champion of a New Education for a New Economy
- Alternative Schedules: A New School Day Dawns
- Online Learning: Virtual Valedictory (Sidebar: Virtually Real: Distance-Learning Educators Go the Distance When They Go Offline)
- Politics: Elephants, Donkeys, and Teens
- Language: Learn What a Billion People Already Know
- Science: Sputnik Redux (Sidebar: A Neo-Nemo for the Classroom: Remote Exploration 42,000 Miles Under the Sea
- Social Networking: TheirSpace (Sidebars: Digital Discussion: Take Your Class to the Internet and Edublogs We Love: Ten Top Stops for Internet Interaction)
- Vocational Programs: Labor Relations
- Arts: Wherefore Art?
This article was also published in the Sep 2007: What's Next issue of Edutopia magazine .
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