Recently added articles from NEA Today:
GET OFF THE SIDELINES
May 01, 2008; Walker, Doug ... Politics in our great country has, unfortunately, devolved into a spectator sport. Our cover story, however, profiles a number of your colleagues who understand that they can have a say in policies that regulate their classrooms, workplaces, and communities by helping select the policymakers ....
interact
May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... TOP CLICKS Get in the Game! Get your summer started at www.nea.org/ref?game. Learn what other NEA members are doing on the campaign trail and find fun ways to display your status as an all-star activist (even if you're a rookie!) Check out our giveaways and come back often to see ...
talk back
May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Saying Goodbye to the Classroom Wow! I just read "Why They Leave" (April 2008) and felt as if you had written the article about me! My husband, a seventh-grade social studies teacher, and I, a fifth-grade teacher, have just begun graduate work to change careers after over 20 years each ...
CORRECTIONS
May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Page 29 of the April issue contains an incorrect Web address to access the Test Your Gang IQ feature. The correct URL is www.nea.org/ref?gangs. Also, an article ...
A Lunch with Longevity
May 01, 2008; Patel, Ranee ... EDITH QUIMBY started off in the kitchen inadvertently, as a little girl who delivered her father's lunch pail. That was more than 80 years ago. Now she works as a lunch lady at the Hamilton School in North Kingstown, Rhode Island-a job that she has held for 46 years. Every ...
It Matters if You're Male
May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... JUST ONE YEAR with a female teacher would close completely the gender gap for 13-year-old girls in math, and cut the science gap by half, while a year with a male reading teacher would significantly boost the reading scores of boys, according to a National Bureau of ...
WHAT DOES COMPASSION MEAN?
May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A new Web site, designed by an Indiana parent with an SAT-ready son, doesn't just provide vocabulary quizzes for kids. Every time a player gets an answer right, it also donates ...
On the Outs With Uncle Sam
May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... WHEN IT COMES to a $200 pair of jeans, parents may not care if their kids are "in" or "out." But when it comes to the military wanting to recruit their children during wartime, they are very likely to care about the in or out distinction. The military has an open door now, thanks to an ...
notepad
May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... NCLB NEWS FLASH! The Secretary of Education has decided that a school that keeps missing one No Child Left Behind target doesn't need to be treated as if it missed, say, 37 targets. At least, not if that school is in one of 10 states in a pilot program announced in March. Other ...
The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See
May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... OREGON SCIENCE TEACHER Greg Craven became an Internet sensation when his YouTube video on climate change-"The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See"-went viral last summer. Millions viewed it and thousands left comments, prompting Craven to spend his entire summer on part two. The ...
Even on your worst day...
May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... YOU'VE NEVER been trapped in the toilet, right? Late last year, a retired Scottish schoolteacher spent nearly four days stuck inside the loo at a little-used sports clubhouse, when the door ...
Do Your Homework!
May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... VITAL STATS Despite recent media attention around "overwhelming" amounts of homework, about 85 percent of parents say their children get just the right amount of homework-or too little, according to a recent MetLife Survey of the American Teacher. The survey also found that ...
Book Focus
May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Book Focus SUMMER READING Finally, a book about teaching that tells it how it is. Michael Gose is a teacher who has made mistakes-and magic-like all of you. There's the time he attempts to teach The Owl and the Pussy Cat to a classroom of teenage boys. (A mistake.) And the time ...
Q&A
May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Patricia Gándara LEADING RESEARCHER ON LATINO STUDENTS Gándara is co-director of The Civil Rights Project Proyecto Derechos Civiles at the University of California Los Angeles. Her latest book, The Latino Education Crisis, is due out later this year. What is the "crisis" ...
REG WEAVER'S SIX YEARS
May 01, 2008; Anonymous ... His legacy: A stronger NEA When Reg Weaver took office nearly six years ago, the No Child Left Behind law had just passed with the support of a broad bipartisan majority, including many friends of public schools who didn't understand what it would mean in the classroom. Today, ...
COOKING UP A CAMPAIGN
May 01, 2008; Rosales, John ... Inspired by their peers, Washington ESPs fight for living wages. What's the recipe for a successful living wage campaign? A dollop of funding, a dash of leadership, and lots of willing members. In 2002, the Ithaca Paraprofessionals Association in New York made bargaining history when ...
DANCE OF THE TRAPEZOiD
May 01, 2008; Jehlen, Alain ... Educators use the power of the arts to teach math and science. FOR CHARLENE ELLINGSON. THE EYE-OPENER WAS A PAINTING BY A HMONG GIRL WITH VERY LIMITED ENGLISH. Ellingson, a biology teacher in Minneapolis, had taught her students about neurotransmitters and synapses and asked them ...
BATTER UP!
May 01, 2008; Flannery, Mary Ellen; Kopkowski, Cynthia ... It's time to hit the campaign trail with Team NEA. Tired of having to do the Hokey Pokey to maneuver through your classroom because it's so jammed with students? Worried that with all the rising costs, your health insurance is about to exacerbate your migraines rather than help relieve ...
Keep it Fun!
May 01, 2008; Capen, Michelle Wise ... Summer is the time to learn for the sake of learning. Learn a craft, create a photo journal, draw sketches of insects, read comic books! Allow your brain to stretch and enjoy! That applies to both teachers and students. Puzzle books, word searches, and Sudokg are great activities for car ...
STOP 'SUMMER LOSS'
May 01, 2008; Jehlen, Alain ... Don't let students' smarts slip. Go to the beach this summer, look for school-age kids, and watch carefully. Can't you just see last year's hardearned knowledge and skills squirting out of their heads? This has actually been measured: According to an extensive research summary by ...