Volume 6 Issue 3, November 2001

Make no mistake about it

• November 2001

Features

• Where everybody knows your name -- Can smaller schools give students an edge?
• Less can be more
• A sense of community can cultivate learning 
• Here, students don't fall between the cracks 

Making a Difference

• Creating community power in schools
• Adapting curriculum to fit all
• Test boycotts could have severe consequences
• Special ed workshops featured at Good Teaching Conferences
• Read Across America

Making the Case

• Irregularities make it impossible to compare High School Exit Exam results
• Heads Up

Taking a Stand

• CFA's series of 22 campus teach-ins focuses attention on CSU system's crisis
• Fresno teachers demand that district honor its word

Action

• Council approves proposal to expand bargaining law
• CTA will back Gov. Davis in his re-election bid
• Schools of greatest need will remain CTA's top priority
• Bills important to teachers are signed into law
• Schools of greatest need
• Pension protections
• Funding for colleges
• Other new laws
• CTA-sponsored legislation for 2001
• CTA co-sponsored legislation for 2001
• Scholarship applications available
• Members invited to enter CTA's art competition and exhibit
• Awards honor Dr. King

Portafolio!

• Real world math skills
• Paying tribute to America
• Book sensitizes children to disabilities
• History's baby made a name for himself
• Student sleuths learn skills required for scientific inquiry
• Sharing the dream with U.S. Olympic hopefuls
• Celebrating adoption