Issues Index

Highlights from the following issues are currently available. If you are searching for a particular article, please contact American Educator at amered@aft.org. 

 

Spring 2012 | Vol. 36, No. 1
Lead the Way
The Case for Fully Guided Instruction

Winter 2011–2012 | Vol. 35, No. 4
The Cult of Success

Fall 2011 | Vol. 35, No. 3
Phoenix Rising
Bringing the Common Core Standards to Life

Summer 2011 | Vol. 35, No. 2
Bridging the "Widest Street in the World"
A Bold Plan for Teacher Preparation

Spring 2011 | Vol. 35, No. 1
Equal Opportunity
For Some of America's Children, It's Just a Fairy Tale

Winter 2010–2011 | Vol. 34, No. 4
Either It All Works Together or It Hardly Works at All
How a Common Core Curriculum Could Make Our Education System Run Like Clockwork

Fall 2010 | Vol. 34, No. 3
College for All? 

Summer 2010 | Vol. 34, No. 2
In Need of a Renaissance
Not Another Hollow Reform

Spring 2010 | Vol. 34, No. 1
The Most Daring Education Reform of All

Winter 2009–2010 | Vol. 33, No. 4
We the People
Our Democracy Depends on Shared Knowledge

Fall 2009 | Vol. 33, No. 3
The Sophisticated Side of Elementary Mathematics

Summer 2009 | Vol. 33, No. 2
Surrounded by Support
Partnerships between Communities and Schools Connect Students with the Services They Need

Spring 2009 | Vol. 33, No. 1
Why Don't Students Like School?

Winter 2008–2009 | Vol. 32, No. 4
How Words Cast Their Spell

Fall 2008 | Vol. 32, No. 3
In Our Hands
Why Teachers Should Guide and Guard the Teaching Profession

Summer 2008 | Vol. 32, No. 2
Teaching English Language Learners

Spring 2008 | Vol. 32, No. 1
There's a Gaping Hole in State Standards

Winter 2007–2008 | Vol. 31, No. 4
Biodiversity Below
New Research Reveals the Wonders of the Deep Sea

Fall 2007 | Vol. 31, No. 3
The Agenda That Saved Public Education

Summer 2007 | Vol. 31, No. 2
Can Critical Thinking Be Taught?

Spring 2007 | Vol. 31, No. 1
Real Support for Really Struggling Schools

Winter 2006–2007 | Vol. 30, No. 4
Cultivating Solutions
How Teacher Unions Aid Educational Quality

Fall 2006 | Vol. 30, No. 3
The Neglected Muse
Why Music Is an Essential Liberal Art

Summer 2006 | Vol. 30, No. 2
Seeking Student Success
Why Do 50 Percent of New Teachers Leave?

Spring 2006 | Vol. 30, No. 1
Background Knowledge
The Case for Content-Rich Language Arts and a Knowledge-Rich Curriculum Core for the Early Grades

Winter 2005–2006 | Vol. 29, No. 4
"Education Work Is Union Work"
A Tribute to AFT President Sandra Feldman,
1939–2005

Fall 2005 | Vol. 29, No. 3
Helping Children Learn Mathematics

Summer 2005 | Vol. 29, No. 2
Building a Union, Toppling Communism

Spring 2005 | Vol. 29, No. 1
Standards-Based Reform and Accountability
Getting It Right—What Needs Fixing

Winter 2004–2005 | Vol. 28, No. 4
Literary Choice and the "Problem Novel"

Fall 2004 | Vol. 28, No. 3
Preventing Early Reading Failure—and Its Devastating Downward Spiral

Summer 2004 | Vol. 28, No. 2
The Beginning of the End of Caste in America: The History of Brown v. Board of Education

Spring 2004 | Vol. 28, No. 1
It's Time to Tell the Kids: If You Don't Do Well in High School, You Won't Do Well in College (or on the Job)

Winter 2003–2004 | Vol. 27, No. 4
Heading Off Disruptive Behavior

Fall 2003 | Vol. 27, No. 3
The Political System of Democracy Is Radical, Recent, and Rare. It Is Our Children's Inheritance. How Best to Pass It On?

Summer 2003 | Vol. 27, No. 2
The Language Police: How Censors from Left and Right Drain the Life and Content from Our Texts

Spring 2003 | Vol. 27, No. 1
The Fourth-Grade Plunge: The Cause. The Cure.

Winter 2002 | Vol. 26, No. 4
Soaring with Heroes: They Lift Our Aims and Spirits

Fall 2002 | Vol. 26, No. 3
Lighting Their World: Celebrating the Subjects Teachers Teach

Summer 2002 | Vol. 26, No. 2
A Common, Coherent Curriculum: And the Cascading Benefits That Flow from It

Spring 2002 | Vol. 26, No. 1
The Story of Science and the Power of Story

Winter 2001 | Vol. 25, No. 4
'The bombs Bursting in Air ...'

Fall 2001 | Vol. 25, No. 3
Keep the Faucet Flowing: Summer Learning and Home Environment

Summer 2001 | Vol. 25, No. 2
Overcoming the Language Gap

Spring 2001 | Vol. 25, No. 1
Why Aren't We Saying No?

Winter 2000–2001 | Vol. 24, No. 4
Layle Lane: Rediscovering an AFT Pioneer

Fall 2000 | Vol. 24, No. 3
Children and Writing

Summer 2000 | Vol. 24, No. 2
Lost in Action: Are Time-Consuming, Trivializing Activities Displacing the Cultivation of Active Minds?

Spring 2000 | Vol. 24, No. 1
'You Can Always Look It Up' ... or Can You?

Winter 1999–2000 | Vol. 23, No. 4
Building a New Structure for School Leadership

Fall 1999 | Vol. 23, No. 3
What It Means To Understand Mathematics

Summer 1999 | Vol. 23, No. 2
The St. Paul Fed Makes History

Spring 1999 | Vol. 23, No. 1
Rethinking Our Ideas about Intelligence and Learning

Winter 1998 | Vol. 22, No. 4
Teaching Is a Cultural Activity

Fall 1998 | Vol. 22, No. 3
Fixing Low-Performing Schools

Spring/Summer 1998 | Vol. 22, Nos. 1 & 2
The Unique Power of Reading and How to Unleash It

Winter 1997–1998 | Vol. 21, No. 4
The Triumphant Power of the Humanities

Fall 1997 | Vol. 21, No. 3
Passing on Failure

Spring/Summer 1997 | Vol. 21, Nos. 1 & 2
The Power of Ideas: Al in His Own Words. A Collection.

Summer 1994 | Vol. 18, No. 2
High Standards for All