August | September 2010
COVER STORY
I Thought I'd Stay Forever
Look around. Did all your colleagues make it back? Eighty percent of school districts lost educators to layoffs this year, and public officials need to know what’s been sacrificed.
| anc_dyn_links Share a story idea, send a letter to the editor, change your address, or offer feedback on our articles. |
| anc_dyn_links In Clark County’s empowerment schools, teachers hold the cards. |
| anc_dyn_links Education’s foremost historian on where NCLB went wrong, ending the testing regime, and why we need neighborhood schools. |
| anc_dyn_links Strategies for ending bickering in the classroom |
| anc_dyn_links Read letters from NEA members. |
| anc_dyn_links “Turning Hope into Action,” with an emphasis on things every member can do to make a difference. |
| anc_dyn_links Join hundreds of educators who have been flexing their funny bones and trying their hand at writing captions. |
| anc_dyn_links Vestal Association of School Paraprofessionals in the fight for a fair contract for three long years. |
| anc_dyn_links Smartboards, activity boards, ELMO’s, Macbooks, Senteo Clickers, iPods—these are a few items that distinguish a 21st Century classroom from one stuck in the darkness of the 20th Century. |
| anc_dyn_links if we don’t show Congress and the president what effective education reform looks like, no one will |
| anc_dyn_links Sarah Brown Wessling from Johnston High School, Johnston, Iowa |
| anc_dyn_links Getting involved; the brotherhood; work up an appetite; merit pay myths; and schoolyard gardening. |
| anc_dyn_links When educators walk the halls of Congress |
| anc_dyn_links Desegregation pioneer Sylvia Mendez speaks out. |
| anc_dyn_links More than one out of three education support professionals were laid off, including every single classroom aide. |
| anc_dyn_links Colleagues share their secrets—what’s yours? |
| anc_dyn_links School officials accused of “spying” on students at home through webcams on school-supplied Macs |
| anc_dyn_links The numbers are daunting but American teachers remain dedicated. |
August, 2010
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