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 March 2007 Table of Contents

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Cover New Money Moves

Some days, it feels like you keep rolling the dice and losing a turn. But there are ways to succeed at the money game! Learn the winning strategies of your colleagues as they ask for (and get) higher pay and fight to protect their health care and retirement benefits.

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Drug Use
Steroids 101

With steroid use among high school students doubling since the early 1990s, educators need to know how to detect and discourage the use of these drugs.

Field Trips
Over the River and Through the Woods

Is the field trip dead? Despite mounting money issues and testing pressure, teachers are finding ways to get out of the classroom.

Library Tale
Room for Readers

Sadly, this isn’t fiction: Just when schools need librarians more than ever, they’re losing them (and often their valuable collections). But they’re also finding new ways to connect with students.

Classroom Tech
Podcasting the 1600s

You don’t have to be a Thomas Edison to figure out this newfangled broadcast technology. Tune in to the latest teaching tool that helps bring learning to life.

Where We Teach
Academy Rewards

As the “Dynamo of Dixie” makes an economic comeback, its schools follow suit, with vocational ed leading the way.

ESP
Parents Take the Wheel

More and more, the kids on the bus belong to the driver, as working parents take them along for the ride to school.

Student Activism
Minimally Adequate?

A judge said these rural schools meet the standard—but student photos say no way.

Spotlight
What Teachers Want

When North Carolina teachers answer their Teacher Working Conditions survey, they get results.

Money
The Tax Man

We’ve got tips to keep the tax man happy. Also, travel insurance: Is it worth it?

State Report
Maine, Vermont, Tennessee, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nebraska, and Idaho.

UpFront
Can Title IX force shoe companies to donate to girls’ athletics?

People
Several NEA members are findng themselves in unique new roles: superhero and comic strip star.

Editor’s Note
Get in the Game
Remember the game of Life? If you were lucky, you’d wind up retired in Millionaire Estates; even if you weren’t, there was always Countryside Acres.

Leading the Way
Offsetting Priorities
NEA rallies to eliminate a longstanding practice that robs countless educators of full retirement benefits.

Last Bell
Crying Over a Test
How the state exam is hurting my children.

President's Viewpoint
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
That’s What Professional Pay Means to Me!

Debate

 

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