Students who enroll at New Haven, Connecticut's Sound School can't be afraid of the water.
(November 10, 2006) – Teacher Magazine
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 Magazine
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 Magazine
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 Magazine
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 Magazine
Some homeschoolers wanting to sample a class or two are being told they have to take the whole meal.
(November 11, 2005) – Teacher Magazine
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 Magazine
Unlike its neighbour to the south, Canada has made parochial schools public in many of its provinces.
(April 15, 2005) – Teacher Magazine
As writer in residence at a New Jersey prep school, novelist Paul Watkins discovered that teaching and writing about the past go hand in hand.
(April 15, 2005) – Teacher Magazine
Two lifelong math teachers create an after-school program that brings their passion for the subject full circle.
(February 18, 2005) – Teacher Magazine
A small liberal-arts college in the Berkshires has been educating teenagers since 1966. It's idea whose time may finally have come.
(November 10, 2004) – Teacher Magazine
A novice educator went to an isolated school for troubled boys to teach. Years later, he returned to Penikese and learned something about himself.
(November 12, 2004) – Teacher Magazine
Within earshot of the frenetic midway, children of traveling carnival workers are getting a serious education.
(October 7, 2004) – Teacher Magazine
Vuong Thuy's Philadelphia charter school sends all of its graduates to college—and raises eyebrows—by being tough.
(October 7, 2004) – Teacher Magazine
For years, a computer-assissted methodology called Universal Design for Learning has enabled special-needs kids in the Boston area to stay in regular classrooms. But can it work nationwide?
(October 7, 2004) – Teacher Magazine
As a defensive lineman for the Baltimore Colts, the 6-foot-4-inch, 260-pound Joe Ehrmann was an all-pro bruiser on the field and a party animal off of it. But in 1978, after his 18-year-old brother died of cancer, Ehrmann blazed another path.
(October 7, 2004) – Teacher Magazine
At Baltimore’s Kennedy Krieger Institute, class time is for kids with illnesses few doctors ever see.
(October 8, 2004) – Teacher Magazine
