February Contents

1 Editor’s Note: Reaching for Humanity

4 Post-Katrina Fixes Really Drive Home Our Humanity
Lawrence Hardy / Phi Delta Kappan
A teacher draws the connection between humanity and play.

10 Play Teaches What Testing Can’t Touch: Humanity
Carol Chmelynski / School Board News
NCLB encourages us to miss the huge importance of play.

14 Americans Renew Their Humanity with Poetry
Poetry Foundation / Poetry in America
A new poll shows Americans want our old connections back.

19 Latino Soldiering: the Red, White, and Brown
Carlos D. Conde / The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education
Always 100% committed, no matter what the cause or cost.

22 Reconceiving the Challenge of Greater Resource
for Our Schools
Robert B. Everhart / Phi Delta Kappan
Those citing post-Sputnik education budgets don’t get NCLB.

31 New College Diversity Laws: Banning Racial Exclusion?
Michelle Adam / The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education
Yesterday’s affirmative action may breed tomorrow’s lawsuit.

37 Another Free-Speech Court Case Off T-Shirts
Kelley R. Taylor / Principal Leadership
Will this “troubling and difficult” case trouble us further?

41 Improving the Questions Students Ask
Maureen Donohue-Smith / The Chronicle of Higher Education
“There’s no such thing as a stupid question.” Oh, really?

44 Best Ways to Involve Parents
Raven Padgett / Communicator
A new report by the National School Public Relations Association.

46 Stabilizing Schools with Kids on the Move
Susan Black / American School Board Journal
The latest research findings sometimes command new approaches.

52 Integrating Underage Drinking and Drug Use Prevention
Jeffrey S. Wolfsberg
Dealing with both at the same time is our best chance.

55 Online High-School Programs that Work
M. D. Roblyer / Phi Delta Kappan
The reasons some online programs fail and others succeed.

64 The Teachers’ Lounge
70 Washington Scene
74 Education News in Brief
77 Education Resources