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American Educator, Winter 2009-2010

Volume 33, no. 4

Notebook

Elevating the Teaching Profession

Arne Duncan

Creating a Curriculum for the American People

Our Democracy Depends on Shared Knowledge
E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

The Anti-Curriculum Movement

Tragically and Unintentionally, It's Really an Anti-Equality Movement
E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Is It True That Some People Just Can't Do Math?

Daniel T. Willingham

Want to Improve Children's Writing?

Don't Neglect Their Handwriting
Steve Graham

Beyond Singapore's Mathematics Textbooks

Focused and Flexible Supports for Teaching and Learning
Patsy Wang-Iverson, Perla Myers, Edmund Lim, W.K.