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Table of Contents | February 2006
Editor's Note: The Importance of Literacy
Reading is a beneficial pastime that will also help you speak well and think clearly.
Letters: Heavy Impact
Thoughts on childhood obesity.
Dispatches: Buried Treasure: Getting to Know -- Really Know -- Your Students
Look hard to see what makes each student unique.
Educating Hearts and Minds: An Interview with George Lucas
Kids Count: Young Citizen-Scientists Learn Environmental Activism
Little Shop of Physics: A Mobile Hands-On Science Program Captivates
Room to Learn: Trailer Bash
Room To Learn: Mystery Science Theater
Where Have All the Principals Gone?: The Acute School-Leader Shortage
Intelligent Design: Immersing Students in Civic Education
A New Learning Day: After School Is No Afterthought
It Takes a Planet: Education Is a Common Thread
Free Radicals: Loosening the Reins on Education
Kimberly Oliver: National Teacher of the Year
Taking Back the Class: Teach to the Test? No Way!
Summer School Nation: Vivid Vacation Pursuits
Readers' Survey 2006
The Daring Dozen 2006: Our Heroes
Why Johnny (Still) Can't Read: Schools Meet the Challenge of Producing Teen Readers
Fighting for Fitness: Educational Institutions Step into the Ring
Lost in Translation: Reaching Out to English-Language Learners
Synching Up with the iKid: Connecting to the Twenty-First-Century Student
Time Out: Rethinking the Hours America Spends Educating
What Works: Using Our Time Wisely to Support and Improve Public Education
F for Assessment: Standardized Testing Fails
Brave New School: Teaching Disabled and Nondisabled Students Together
The Daring Dozen 2004: Our Heroes
Full House: As Las Vegas Grows, So Does the Need to Accommodate Its Students
Sage Advice: Reading and Writing Proficiency
What works to ensure that middle school and high school students are proficient in reading and writing?
Features
Building Blocks: Learning Business Skills for the Real World
Fighting urban blight with teenage might.
Lead, Don't Lecture: A New Approach to Teaching
Smart educators say it's better to coach than to cajole.
Tech Teaches: Screen Time Isn't Necessarily a Bad Thing
Once thought to corrode reading skills, computers are a key tool in improving them.
Reading Rules: The Word of the Day Is 'Literacy'
At JEB Stuart High, students can't wait to hit the books. How'd that happen?
The New Drill: Teaching Educators How to Improve Reading Levels
On-site coaches focus on teachers, not students, in the battle to boost literacy.
Why Johnny (Still) Can't Read: Schools Meet the Challenge of Producing Teen Readers
As reading skills falter, educators push to improve adolescent literacy.
Cool Schools
Fishy Business: A Class of Kids and a School of Fish
A high school hatchery protects endangered species and demands academic excellence.
How To: Keep a Club Swimming Upstream
The United Anglers of Casa Grande High School serve as guardians of Adobe Creek.
Design
Outside the Box: If You Think Portables Are Ugly, Think Again
A Los Angeles architect pushes the prefab classroom's drab envelope.
Heart & Soul
Learning by Giving: Community Service as Classwork
Schools add the Golden Rule to the curriculum.
Muse: Fit for Life: A Coach's Pep Talk
Former San Francisco 49ers coach Bill Walsh discusses the importance of physical fitness in school and beyond.
Head of Class
Extra Credit: Goodies for the Teacher and Student
Great things for class -- tested in our secret underground labs.
12 Million: Teen Content Creators
High-tech teens.
Field Trips: Events for Educators
Places to go, people to see, things to do.
Real-Life Lit: Pen Pals Share Books -- and the Love of Books
In2Books revives the ancient arts of reading and writing.
Dare to Compare: Web Sites Score Schools
Go online for data about local schools.
Trail Mix: Teachers and Politics
Camp Wellstone provides a rapid introduction to political campaigning.
Recess
Frowning: The Downside
The weight of stress on your heart.
Wheel Science: Two Can Be More Fun Than Four
A bicycle built for you.
State of the Heart: Knowing How to Listen to Your Ticker
Should you add a heart monitor to your workout kit?
The All-Spin Zone: The Best Bike Ride to Nowhere
Stationary-bike workouts are taking off.
Touring Turin: Discover This Italian Gem
The site of the Winter Olympics offers more than ski slopes and skating rinks.
Sugar Baddy: Curb Your Craving
Beat the sweets.
Powder Play: New Games for the Snow
Hot times for cold climes.
