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May 2001 Table
of Contents
 Cover
Story:
An
Open Secret- Too many teachers leave the profession just afew years after they
start. How to stop the exodus? One way is by teaming new teachers like
Seattle's Walter Smith with inspiring veterans who knows the ropes.
- Debate
- Should second-career new teachers be required to take methods courses
before starting work? Yes, from Angela Denmore from Cape Henlopen, Delaware;
No, from Monica Jenkins-Moore of Shreveport, Louisiana
- From
Low Performing to High Priority
- Priority #1; Making every public school great
- Heroes
& Zeroes
- Record Montana crowd demands school funding
- Stick
Together, Stay on Message, Tell Your Story
- Wyoming acts to put real money into salaries
- "It's
About Treating Everyone the Same"
- Maine NEA local gains pay equity for university staff
- Do-er's
Profile
- Alabama bus driver Rachel Hicks, a new local president, has gotten
her members involved in a variety of ways--be it through an award-winning
display at the National Peanut Festival, "ESPO bucks" for those who
attend Association meetings, or plain old problem solving on the job.
She even signed up her superintendent as an NEA member.
- Rights
Watch
- Geography often dictates rights of nontenured teachers
- Interview
- What it will take to close the student achievement gap
- Innovators
- Teacher-run publication is rethinking schools
- Problems
& Solutions
- Maryland school pilots handheld computer program. Also; Grant gives
California teachers freedom to work together and improve learning.
- Reading
- Complete reading program leaves no child behind
- Inside
Scoop
- Math Wars: News from the front lines
- ESP
on the Team
- New Jersey paras gladly take path to career growth
- Tips
for the Wired Classroom
- Music for the young on the Web
- Letters
- Readers react to the April issue of NEA Today.
- President's
Viewpoint
Teaching
Care and Nurturing
- To meet the growing demands for teachers, first we must do more to
keep the good teachers we already have.
- My
Turn
- Becoming a "teacher specialist"
- Health
and Fitness
- Start an asthma action plan
- Money
- Is online stock trading for you? How about those credit cards?
- People
- Vermont's Michele Forman doesn't take knowlege lightly
- Resources
- The best in TV, and books. Plus, Web Winners
- In
the Light Lane
- Searching high and low
- Masthead
- Who we are.
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