Each month, "Curriculum Review" offers teachers mutual support, the sharing of ideas, and words of encouragement to help them face challenges in the classroom. The October 2004 issue of "Curriculum Review" contains the following articles: (1) "We Hear from Readers"; (2) "What They're Saying"; (3) "Technology Update"; (4) "Consider Drafting Younger Student Mentors"; (5) "Bringing Home Budgeting Realities"; (6) "Creating Young Entrepreneurs"; (7) "Special-Ed Students Get Taste of Working World"; (8) "Up, Up and Away with a Fledgling Business"; (9) "Between Tears & Laughter"; (10) "What the Numbers Say"; (11) "Last Month in Education"; (12) "Inspiring Words for Educators"; (13) "School Pounds Home Anti-Obesity Message"; (14) "Engineering Healthier Snacks"; (15) "Creepy Crawlies Spark Interest in Biology"; (16) "Helping Parents Jump onto the Reading Bandwagon"; (17) "Video Gangs up on Gangs"; (18) "Booking Connections between Preschoolers and Teens"; (19) "Making Kids' Political Preferences Count"; (20) "5 Simple Strategies for Answering--and Heading off--School Critics"; (21) "More School Drama Productions Embrace Nontraditional Casting"; (22) "'Mark Twain' Like a Steamboat Captain"; (23) "Resources for the Classroom"; and (24) "Use 'Tongue Fu!' to Get Along Better with Teachers, Principals, Students and Parents" (Sam Horn).