February 2005

FEATURES
Making the Grade
With the seemingly endless ways to fail AYP, how can schools increase their chances to pass? Six school districts share how they got their numbers up.

Avoiding Student-Blogger Lawsuits
What students write online and how they are held accountable is a legal gray area with many schools ending up liable.

How to Improve Your IT Bottom Line
Buying tech means more than checking price lists. Read how you can determine the total cost of ownership (TCO) to keep expenses under control.

VIEWPOINTS
Q&A with Abelardo "Abe" Saavedra
Houston School District's first Latino superintendent looks to inaugurate a charter high school geared toward the city's immigrant adolescents.

Why We Must Fix the E-Rate
The simple idea of government wiring the nation's schools through funding has grown deeply flawed, writes the author, who also suggests the means to fix it.

IN EVERY ISSUE
Plugged In
Game Boys as teachers' aid; outsourcing data management; what the new IDEA means for administrators; and more.

District Spotlight
By putting tablet PCs in the hands of every teacher, Hinsdale School District 86 in Illinois is helping its students succeed.

Designs Th@t Work (PDF)
Open spaces introduce students to a world of technology.

Correction: In "More Than Just a Pretty Space" (Dec/Jan 2005), the architectural firm that designed Mooreland Hills Elementary School, Fanning/Howey Associates, Inc., was misspelled.

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