Pre-College

Magazine articles on education and school administration grades K-12.

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T.H.E. Journal January 2004 Jennifer W. Lovitt	Successful Strategies for Saving & Securing Technology Funding While locating funding for technology can be a challenge, financial support can often be found if a school district searches in both conventional and unconventional places.
T.H.E. Journal January 2004 Therese Mageau	Determining 'What Works' An interview with Dr. Grover 'Russ' Whitehurst, the director of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences.
Reason January 2004 Renee Moilanen	Just Say No Again The old failures of new and improved anti-drug education
Science News November 29, 2003 Ivars Peterson	The Cow in the Classroom There is a difference between mathematical exercises disguised as episodes of everyday life and real mathematics applied in the real world. It's a distinction that's not always apparent in the mathematics classroom.
T.H.E. Journal December 2003 Bessell et al.	Engaging Families With Technology This article provides hands-on strategies for researchers and educators alike to implement with families from diverse cultural backgrounds, including the culture of poverty, to increase parental involvement in children's formal schooling.
ifeminists November 18, 2003 Rex Curry	Government Schools and Unconstitutional Searches As an attorney, I believe that government schools should be unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment ban of unreasonable searches. The recent police-state raid in Goose Creek, South Carolina is another in the growing list of proofs.
Reason November 2003 Julian Sanchez	Dirty Words Education professor Diane Ravitch found a disturbing catalog of bipartisan censorship in public school curricula, which she presents in her new book, The Language Police.
Geotimes November 2003 Megan Sever	Evolution to stay in Texas texts On Nov. 7, the months-long debate over how evolution would be presented in high-school biology textbooks in Texas came to a head: Evolution is here to stay, in its entirety.
T.H.E. Journal November 2003 Barton & Collura	Catalyst for Change Bishop Hartley becomes the first U.S. high school to furnish an entire class with Tablet PCs.
T.H.E. Journal November 2003 Jill K. Bell	Videoconferencing Takes Cape Elizabeth Middle School on a Distance Learning Adventure Imagine watching fifth-graders in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, examining and comparing the anatomy of zoo animals in their own classroom -- while the animals are more than 200 miles away. Incredibly, that's what we did one day last March in a live videoconference with the Bronx Zoo in New York.
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