Department: K-12‪.‬

There are seven yellow crocuses blooming in my yard. Does that mean that winter is ended? Or does it mean that spring is beginning? A future teacher, studying Chatback as a homework assignment, recently wrote asking why we advocate having special ed students on the nets. "Do they get more out of it than regular students," she asked. Are we living through the last gasps of this old and worn-out century? Or the gay awakenings of the new? In this issue, I'm sharing a bit of the gay awakenings happening on the World Wide Web, Lois is reporting on a book with a fresh perspective on dyslexia, and Sheila is providing answers for those asking why we are doing this. Behind the scenes, Bob is creating new online environments (a Web page/mailing list project to build a kid-created online encyclopedia), and Tom is evangelizing in Estonia.