Tools Of The Trade The protractor and the Bunsen burner. Playing the recorder in music class. Drawing arcs and circles with a compass in geometry. In this series, we explore these and many other tools of the education trade.
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Tools Of The Trade
A Spider-Man lunch box on duty at Payne Elementary School in Washington, D.C. Kat Lonsdorf/NPR hide caption
Kindergarten students read before class starts at Walker-Jones Education Campus in Washington, D.C. Elissa Nadworny/NPR hide caption
Jasper Barnett, a junior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., looks up in the school's planetarium. Elissa Nadworny/NPR hide caption
Egg babies created by Aaron Warren's ninth-grade students at Orthopaedic Hospital Medical Magnet High School in Los Angeles. Courtesy of Aaron Warren hide caption
This is a vintage frog dissection diagram. Flikr Creative Commons hide caption
Patches for the new Presidential Youth Fitness Program in Lauren Horton's office at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. Elissa Nadworny/NPR hide caption
"A" is for Abacus LA Johnson/NPR hide caption
