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Teacher Magazine August 2000 Drew Linsay |
Reefer Madness: January 1997 Sherry Hearn is perhaps the best teacher ever fired on account of a half-smoked, hand-rolled joint. |
Teacher Magazine August 2000 David Ruenzel |
Sex, Tests, And Parental Roles "An understanding of sex education's practical ineffectiveness has been a long time coming," writes Jeffrey P. Moran in Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century... Plus, Deborah Meier's Will Standards Save Public Education?... |
Teacher Magazine August 2000 |
Recommended For Kids Henny-Penny, retold and illustrated by Jane Wattenberg, refills a fairy tail with rhythm and rhyme, injecting hip phrases, puns, and idioms... Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo is the rare book that moves us with a direct appeal to our deepest feelings and strongest emotions... |
Teacher Magazine August 2000 Stephen Del Vecchio & Blake Hume Rodman |
Noteworthy REM World, by Rodman Philbrick... Adaline Falling Star, by Mary Pope Osborne... I Was a Rat! by Philip Pullman... Rolling Along: The Story of Taylor and His Wheelchair, by Jamee Riggio Heelan... The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin, by James Cross Giblin... |
Teacher Magazine August 2000 Ronald A. Wolk |
Resigned To Defeat In a parody of musical chairs, superintendents these days leap from one district to another. |
Teacher Magazine August 2000 Kirsten Olson Lanier |
Food For Thought Good, thoughtful work in schools---work that occurs too infrequently in the classroom as evidenced by the weekly packets sent home to me as a parent---helps individuals hold on to both the snake and the mouse. At its best, it perhaps even offers a glimpse of the ecosystem in which these two creatures exist. |
Teacher Magazine August 2000 William A. Proefiedt |
Ben Franklin, Meet Forrest Gump Pairing a Founding Father with an education professor who survived the 60's gets you a little lamentation and a little celebration... |
Teacher Magazine August 2000 |
Letters Taking On Tuchman and the bilingual education question... Job security at Catholic schools... Test-prep not a substitute for education... Pay rates for teachers... Pikachu Goes To School... |
Teacher Magazine August 2000 David Hill |
Clippings Frustrated by both traditional reward-punishment systems and a no-rules classroom experiment, Mathina Carkci settled on a discipline program that aims to teach children social responsibility... Reality check for teaching volunteerism... |
Teacher Magazine August 2000 Theresa Johnston |
Fly Guy A San Francisco-area science teacher teaches the physics of sounds the hands-on way... |
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