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February 2012 | Volume 69 | Number 5
Marge Scherer
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Larry Cuban
As educators implement rival values, will they find the middle way?
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Daniel Willingham and David Daniel
Why effective teachers pay attention to the ways in which all students are the same.
Will Richardson
Technology leverages students' curiosity to learn whatever whenever.
Carol Ann Tomlinson and Edwin Lou Javius
Seven principles for creating classrooms that give students equal access to excellence.
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Susan Rakow
How to optimize the potential of those students who master material quickly.
Dina Brulles and Susan Winebrenner
Cluster groups allow students to work with peers as well as contribute to the whole class.
Linda Nathan
Arts education provides a model for continual pursuit of improvement.
William Powell and Ochan Kusuma-Powell
Here's how to shift from teaching facts to teaching concepts in a standards-based curriculum.
Rich Smith, Marcus Johnson and Karen D. Thompson
A district needed to find out where their students were before it could get somewhere.
John H. Clarke
From firefighting to boat building to rock-band management, Pathway students choose projects that expand interests and sharpen skills.
Cheryl Becker Dobbertin
Differentiating how students learn is easier when they know their learning targets.
J. Christine Gould, Linda K. Staff and Heather M. Theiss
Did Henry belong in the gifted class even if he had a learning disability?
Richard Weissbourd and Trevor Dodge
A race to opulence characterizes affluent schools even as other schools scramble to provide basic supplies.
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Bryan Goodwin
How to motivate students to reach for rigor.
Robert J. Marzano
Five phases of note taking can improve retention.
Thomas R. Hoerr
Sometimes we observe what not to do.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Getting students with low prospects to high success.
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Guided choice groups provide the right level of challenge.
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Cindy Massicotte
How to arrange the classroom and otherwise plan for differentiation.
Jennifer Tuzzeo
How one district developed competency-based learning.
Margery B. Ginsberg
A teacher finds out what a school day is like for an English language learner.
Naomi Thiers
A cheerful cynic comments on the U.S. public school system.
Teresa K. Preston
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