March 2008
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March 2008 | Volume 65 | Number 6
Reaching the Reluctant Learner
Feature Articles
Perspectives / Educating Jonathan
Marge Scherer
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Engaging Students Around the Globe
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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Testing the Joy Out of Learning
Sharon L. Nichols and David C. Berliner
As time spent on testing grows, negative consequences multiply.
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Of Whales and Wonder
Kieran Egan and Gillian Judson
How to bring out the imaginative and emotional features of the curriculum.
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Cultivating Optimism in the Classroom
Richard Sagor
Ways to inspire in students competence, perseverance, and faith in the future.
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When Students Seem Stalled
Betty K. Garner
The student whose disinterest in school is puzzling may need help developing specific cognitive skills.
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Turning On the Lights
Marc Prensky
Why schools need to embrace students' technology-infused lives.
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The Wounded Student
Kirsten Olson
Help for the underestimated—and undermined—student.
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Beneath the Apathy
Gail Thompson
Students who seem apathetic about schoolwork may be masking anger and disappointment.
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Sustaining the Fire
Barbara Bartholomew
One must both inspire students and prepare them for success.
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Sustaining the Fire: How Do You Motivate the Reluctant Learner?
Barbara Bartholomew
Barbara Bartholomew asks noted educators this question.
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Reluctant Teachers, Reluctant Learners
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.
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What's Relevant for YouTubers?
Johanna Mustacchi
Seventh graders thought they knew all about mass media but were amazed that school could teach them even more.
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You Should Read This Book!
Jennifer Hartley
Goals, choice, and focus made her students enthusiastic about reading.
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Life Ain't No Crystal Stair
Susan Danoff
Authentic writing about real subjects led students to find their own voices.
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Special Topic / Scripted Curriculum: Scourge or Salvation?
Denise Gelberg
Effective lesson plans can be found in many places.
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Departments
What Research Says About... / Grade Retention
Jane L. David
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Ask About Accountability / Trolling for Tests
W. James Popham
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The Principal Connection / Curing the Healthy
Thomas R. Hoerr
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Leading to Change / Waiting for NCLB
Douglas B. Reeves
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Educational Leadership Themes for 2008–2009
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Special Report / Engaged and On Track
Amy M. Azzam
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ASCD Community in Action
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Best of the Blog
Laura Varlas
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Online Only
At Your Service
Kathie Marshall
Empowering students through service learning.
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Orchestrating School Culture
Linda Inlay
A principal describes how her high school transformed itself.
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The Book Trailer: Engaging Teens Through Technologies
Sara Kajder
Students find a new composing space and a real audience.
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EL Study Guide
Teresa Preston
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