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Showing academic growth of gifted students.(from the editor)
March 22, 2009... With the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind, legislators and professionals in education will be reexamining the methods used for determining adequate yearly progress (AYP) of students. This provides a window of opportunity for us to step up and speak out about the effects of current...

On this day.(on the web)(www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday)(Website overview)(Brief article)
March 22, 2009... http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday This site gives the day's highlights in history--news events, actor and actress birthdays, comic strip debuts, and TV series premieres. There's also a word of the day, a test prep question, and a daily news quiz. The student Web Navigator...

Braingle.(on the web)(www.braingle.com)(Website overview)(Brief article)
March 22, 2009... http://www.braingle.com This Web site features more than 17,000 brain teasers, riddles, logic problems, quizzes, and mind puzzles--the largest collection anywhere on the Internet! The Mentalrobics[TM] section has a vocabulary word of the day, mnemonics strategies, and memory tests. The...

National geographic video.(on the web)(video.nationalgeographic.com)(Website overview)(Brief article)
March 22, 2009... http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video The National Geographic Video Web site features videos from eight categories, including animals, daily news, environment, kids, music, science and space, specials, and travel and cultures. Each category is broken down further into more specific...

Nature-based learning.(Brief article)
March 22, 2009... Outdoor classrooms are carefully designed for learning with trees, plants, boulders, and logs that create habitats for bugs and other small creatures (Manzo, K. K. [2008]. Schools adapting curriculum to the outdoors. Education Week, 28[15], 1, 12-13). Students may experiment with variations...