Closing the Achievement Gap
By Sandra Feldman
Why does the achievement gap persist and what can we do to close it? AFT's
president talks about the importance of children's early years and gives her
prescription for putting all young learners on the road to success.
Keep the Faucet Flowing
Summer Learning and Home Environment
By Doris R. Entwisle, Karl L. Alexander, and Linda Steffel Olson
It's not true that schools are shortchanging poor, minority children, but it
is true that these kids need more than they are getting. Three Johns Hopkins
researchers tell us what they have discovered about schools, neighborhoods,
and inequality; and they talk about how we can eliminate the achievement gap
right at the beginning of children's school years.
The School Marketplace
Has Commercialization Gone Too Far?
By Alexander Wohl
Some people don't think
schools should sell soft drinks and junk food or lend themselves to product
promotions. Others say that schools can't afford
to pass up the advantages that corporate involvement has to offer. But where
do the students fit into this picture?
For this article, Alexander Wohl won first place in the trade publications
division of the 2001 National Awards for Education Reporting by the
Education Writers Association.
Harnessing Technology in the Classroom
By Ellen Ficklen and Carol Muscara
For teachers who are relative newcomers to technology and who worry about
how they can use it wisely and well in their classrooms, here is an anatomy
of a school computer system and some advice on how to take advantage of
educational technology without getting thrown.
Lessons from the Analog World
What Tomorrow's Classrooms Can Learn from Today
By Kevin Bushweller
No matter what cyber-enthusiasts say, joining the technology revolution does
not mean throwing away what we already know about how
classrooms work and kids learn.
Steady Work
The Story of Connecticut's School Reform
By Suzanne M. Wilson, Linda Darling-Hammond, and Barnett Berry
In Connecticut, fifteen-plus years of planning, cultivating, and reworking
the education system are paying off for the state's students and teachers.
Oliver Goldsmith Comes to Nigeria
Pages from a Teacher's Journal
By Barbara Grant Nnoka
How does the eighteenth-century English comedy of manners, She Stoops To
Conquer, play in a twentieth-century African Society, where
manners are equally important but very different?
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