How you refer to North Star in Hadley, Massachusetts, depends on how you define learning.
November 10, 2006 – Teacher
Are Montessori schools better than their conventional counterpars?
November 10, 2006 – Teacher
The story of Amistad Academy, a charter school in New Haven, Connecticut, that turns kids at risk for failing out of school into students determined to enroll in college.
April 14, 2006 – Teacher
Suffering from an incurable degenerative disease, Norma Jean Taylor can no longer walk, or even write legibly. But with help from students and colleagues, she remains a cornerstone of her school.
February 17, 2006 – Teacher
As a public school teacher on loan to the Smithsonian's new air and space museum, Margy Natalie relishes bringing her love of flying into the classroom. Includes a photo gallery.
February 17, 2006 – Teacher
Growing up in St. Petersburg, Florida, Christine Rosen attended the Keswick Christian School, where the Bible was the primary textbook — and the sole authority on the origins of life on Earth. Rosen recounts her struggle, as a young girl, to reconcile her experience at a secular summer science program with Keswick's strict creationist teachings.
December 21, 2005 – Teacher
Some homeschoolers wanting to sample a class or two are being told they have to take the whole meal.
November 11, 2005 – Teacher
Alternative ed veteran Donna Johnson knows what it's like to fall through the cracks. Now, the 58-year-old grandmother is reaching troubled kids online.
September 30, 2005 – Teacher
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October 7, 2004 – Teacher