April 2010 | Volume 67 | Number 7

Reimagining School

Feature Articles

Perspectives / A Time for Audacity

Marge Scherer

Listen online.

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Reform: To What End?

Mike Rose

If we are going to change our schools, let's start from the inside out.

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Where Are Our Greenfields?

A Conversation with Frederick M. Hess

Deborah Perkins-Gough

How do we create the conditions where fresh ideas will flourish?

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Education: The Case for Making It Personal

Ron Wolk

Standardized rigor for all is not the answer; to bridge the achievement gap, schools must put individual students' needs first.

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National Education Standards: To Be or Not to Be?

Paul E. Barton

Some questions to ponder about what national standards really mean.

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Are National Standards the Right Move?

Deborah Meier, William H. Schmidt, Chester E. Finn Jr. and Phillip Schlechty

Five leaders point out the pros and cons.

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Empowered—After School

Susan B. Neuman

Stealth learning is alive and well after school.

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More Time, More Learning

Chris Gabrieli

Timely ideas for expanding learning and turning around struggling schools.

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High School at a Crossroads

Ed Coughlin

Will high schools learn to facilitate open-source, collaborative learning?

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From Hope to Belief

Nancy Hoffman and Michael Webb

Students who didn't aspire to college find that an early-college experience changes their minds.

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For Openers: How Technology Is Changing School

Curtis J. Bonk

The power of online learning is transforming the idea of "going to school."

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A Habitat for 21st Century Learning

Judy Harris Helm, Steven Turckes and Ken Hinton

Peoria Public Schools redesigns its buildings, keeping academics, the community, and nature in focus.

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Bringing Montessori to San Juan

James Seale-Collazo

How a teacher-initiated idea changed traditional practice.

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Special Topic / Why Guidance Counseling Needs to Change

Jean Johnson, Jon Rochkind and Amber Ott

Young adults want more from their high school guidance systems, a Public Agenda survey reports.

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Departments

The Art and Science of Teaching / Teaching Inference

Robert J. Marzano

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What Research Says About… / Year-Round Schooling

Tracy A. Huebner

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Digitally Speaking / How Flat Is Your Classroom?

William M. Ferriter

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The Principal Connection / Remember the Children

Joanne Rooney

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Book Review

Naomi Thiers

Hope and Despair in the American City by Gerald Grant

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ASCD Community in Action

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Getting More Kids College-Ready

Jack Leonard

At Amesbury High School, all kids benefit from dual enrollment and advanced placement courses.

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Wishing Every Day Were Saturday

Susan Catapano and Jenny E. Gray

In this weekend program, both kids and teachers-in-training thrive.

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Beyond Grade Level

Fernando Naiditch

Why some schools in Brazil organize learning in cycles, not grade levels.

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When Teachers Run the School

Eleni Natsiopoulou and Vicky Giouroukakis

A Greek high school demonstrates the effectiveness of distributed leadership.

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EL Study Guide

Naomi Thiers

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