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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.
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: What's the Most Commonly Asked Question in the Classroom?
Features
What's Next: 2006
Our predictions -- and resolutions -- for the new (school) year.
Healthy Business: Making Nutrition a Part of School
Food becomes a boon, not a burden.
Rain Check: Backup Systems Move Front and Center
Disaster preparedness in schools gets serious.
NCLB: Calling for a Cease-Fire
More educators seek the potential, not the peril, in the controversial act.
Digital Diversity: Engaging All Students in Education
High tech tools shift from special to universal.
Cell Sanity: Mobile Phones Ring Changes in the Classroom
Controversy over cell phones will continue to cause static in schools.
The Long View: Taking a Look Ahead
What educators can expect to see over the next five years and beyond.
New (School) Year's Resolutions: The Leaders Speak
Thought leaders in education share their determinations for the coming 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 & Soul
Mediation, Not Metal Detectors: Kids Learn to Talk it Out
Security work is social work at a Boston-area high school.
Muse: Pop Quiz: Dolly Parton
Ten years ago, musician Dolly Parton launched the Imagination Library, which each month sends a new book to preschoolers. Today, it reaches more than a quarter-million children.
Head of Class
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.
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.
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.
String Fever: Guitars in the Classroom
Guitar-strumming teachers lead to engaged kids.
