October Contents

1 Editor’s Note: Priming Us for Crisis

4 Few Schools Are Ready to Manage a Crisis
Thomas G. Dolan / The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education
Not even 9/11 and Katrina were sufficient wake-up calls.

9 Helping Teenagers Get Through the Worst: Suicide
Douglas Fisher / Phi Delta Kappan
Adolescence is not all hormones and drivers’ licenses.

14 Changes for Avoiding Burnout in Teachers and Advisers
Mary Lou Nagy
She had suffered burnout but didn’t know it until a year later.

19 The Principals Denied by NCLB Are Central to Visionary School Reform
Gail L. Sunderman, Gary Orfield, and James S. Kim / Principal Leadership
Their input is essential as we work on revising NCLB.

25 Education Blogs Hit Our Elections Next Month
David D. Perlmutter / The Chronicle of Higher Education
Countless questions will be answered only by experience.

33 Student Safety from Cyberbullies, in Chat Rooms, and in Instant Messaging
Jeffrey S. Wolfsberg
Kids don’t see: Many chat rooms are havens for sexual predators.

38 Getting High-School Dropouts Back in School
Carol Chmelynski / School Board News
How 12 communities are re-connecting out-of-school youth.

42 Teaching Money “$marts” Smarts
Susan Black / American School Board Journal
Good teachers must find creative ways to teach economics.

48 Rules for Engaging Challenging People
Nathan L. Tyson / Principal Leadership
Effective communication is more important in dealing with them.

52 Keeping Our Engaged, At-Risk Kids in College
Frank DiMaria / The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education
What overall community college student engagement will require.

58 What Makes It Tough Teaching Legal Ethics
Leonard M. Niehoff / The Chronicle of Higher Education
One wisecrack goes, “It must be a short course.”

62 Chinese Public Education in Transition
Robert J. Krajewski / Principal
Chinese youth buy into TV fakery about Americans as real.

66 The Teachers’ Lounge
70 Washington Scene
74 Education News in Brief
76 Education Resources