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March 2008 | Volume 65 | Number 6
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Reva Klein
Around the world, young people express the same desires, grievances, and reasons to attend—or stay away from—school.
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Sharon L. Nichols and David C. Berliner
As time spent on testing grows, negative consequences multiply.
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Kieran Egan and Gillian Judson
How to bring out the imaginative and emotional features of the curriculum.
Richard Sagor
Ways to inspire in students competence, perseverance, and faith in the future.
Betty K. Garner
The student whose disinterest in school is puzzling may need help developing specific cognitive skills.
Marc Prensky
Why schools need to embrace students' technology-infused lives.
Kirsten Olson
Help for the underestimated—and undermined—student.
Gail Thompson
Students who seem apathetic about schoolwork may be masking anger and disappointment.
Barbara Bartholomew
One must both inspire students and prepare them for success.
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Julie Landsman, Tiffany Moore and Robert Simmons
Behind those students who don't want to learn may be teachers who didn't want to teach them.
Johanna Mustacchi
Seventh graders thought they knew all about mass media but were amazed that school could teach them even more.
Jennifer Hartley
Goals, choice, and focus made her students enthusiastic about reading.
Susan Danoff
Authentic writing about real subjects led students to find their own voices.
Denise Gelberg
Effective lesson plans can be found in many places.
Jane L. David
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Thomas R. Hoerr
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Laura Varlas
Kathie Marshall
Empowering students through service learning.
Linda Inlay
A principal describes how her high school transformed itself.
Sara Kajder
Students find a new composing space and a real audience.
Teresa Preston
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