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This subject index provides links to recent articles on the topics listed below. For access to all of American Educator's online articles, please see Issues Index or Authors Index.
Accountability
Ask the Cognitive Scientist
Community Schools
Curriculum
Early Childhood
Early Intervention
English Language Learners
High School to College Transition
History, Civics, and Democracy
Improving Student Behavior
Math
Reading
School-Wide Improvement
Science
Teacher Professionalism
Vocabulary
John Cronin, Michael Dahlin, Deborah Adkins, and G. Gage Kingsbury • Winter 2007–2008
The Proficiency Illusion (PDF)
Chester E. Finn Jr. and Michael J. Petrilli • Winter 2007–2008
Conjuring Cut Scores: Not New, but a Worthy Challenge (PDF)
Heidi Glidden and Amy M. Hightower • Spring 2007
Mismatch: When State Standards and Tests Don't Mesh, Schools Are Left Grinding Their Gears (PDF)
Daniel Koretz • Fall 2008
A Measured Approach: Value-Added Models Are a Promising Improvement, but No One Measure Can Evaluate Teacher Performance (PDF)
Daniel Koretz • Fall 2008
Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us (PDF)
Daniel T. Willingham • Summer 2011
Can Teachers Increase Students' Self-Control? (PDF)
Daniel T. Willingham • Summer 2010
Have Technology and Multitasking Rewired How Students Learn? (PDF)
Daniel T. Willingham • Winter 2009–2010
Is It True That Some People Just Can't Do Math? (PDF)
Daniel T. Willingham • Winter 2008–2009
What Will Improve a Student's Memory? (PDF)
Daniel T. Willingham • Summer 2008
What Is Developmentally Appropriate Practice? (PDF)
Daniel T. Willingham • Winter 2007–2008
Should Learning Be Its Own Reward?
Lee Benson, Lee Harkavy, Michael Johanek, and John Puckett • Summer 2009
The Enduring Appeal of Community Schools: Education Has Always Been a Community Endeavor (PDF)
Marty Blank, Reuben Jacobson, and Sarah S. Pearson • Summer 2009
A Coordinated Effort: Well-Conducted Partnerships Meet Students' Academic, Health, and Social Service Needs (PDF)
Jennifer Dubin • Summer 2009
These Kids Are Alright: How Two Organizations Meet the Needs of Two Students and Their Schools (PDF)
Q&A on Cincinnati's Community Learning Centers • Summer 2009
From the Ground Up: Cincinnati Is Rebuilding Its Schools and Revamping Its Student, and Family, Services (PDF)
Richard Rothstein • Summer 2009
Equalizing Opportunity: Dramatic Differences in Children's Home Life and Health Mean That Schools Can't Do It Alone (PDF)
Jane Quinn and Joy Dryfoos • Summer 2009
Freeing Teachers to Teach: Students in Full-Service Community Schools Are Ready to Learn (PDF)
David K. Cohen • Winter 2010–2011
Learning to Teach Nothing in Particular: A Uniquely American Educational Dilemma (PDF)
Linda Darling-Hammond • Winter 2010–2011
Soaring Systems: High Flyers All Have Equitable Funding, Shared Curriculum, and Quality Teaching (PDF)
Paul R. Gross • Spring 2008
No Contest: Up Close, Typical State Biology Standards Don't Have the Content or Coherence of the International Baccalaureate (PDF)
Laura S. Hamilton • Winter 2010–2011
Testing What Has Been Taught: Helpful, High-Quality Assessments Start with a Strong Curriculum (PDF)
E. D. Hirsch, Jr. • Spring 2006
Building Knowledge: The Case for Bringing Content into the Language Arts Block and for a Knowledge-Rich Curriculum Core for All Children
E. D. Hirsch, Jr. • Winter 2010–2011
Beyond Comprehension: We Have Yet to Adopt a Common Core Curriculum That Builds Knowledge Grade by Grade—But We Need To (PDF)
William H. Schmidt, Leland S. Cogan, and Curtis C. McKnight • Winter 2010–2011
Equality of Educational Opportunity: Myth or Reality in U.S. Schooling? (PDF)
Diana Senechal • Spring 2010
The Most Daring Education Reform of All (PDF)
Diana Senechal • Winter 2010–2011
The Spark of Specifics: How a Strong Curriculum Enlivens Classroom and School Culture (PDF)
Daniel T. Willingham • Spring 2006
How Knowledge Helps: It Speeds and Strengthens Reading Comprehension, Learning—and Thinking
Daniel T. Willingham • Summer 2007
Critical Thinking: Why Is It So Hard to Teach? (PDF)
W. Steven Barnett and Ellen Frede • Spring 2010
The Promise of Preschool: Why We Need Early Education for All (PDF)
Jennifer Dubin • Spring 2010
A Preschool with Promise: How One District Provides Early Education for All (PDF)
Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley • Spring 2003
The Early Catastrophe: The 30 Million Word Gap by Age 3
James J. Heckman • Spring 2011
The Economics of Inequality: The Value of Early Childhood Education (PDF)
Thomas G. Sticht • Fall 2011
Getting It Right from the Start: The Case for Early Parenthood Education (PDF)
Daniel T. Willingham • Summer 2008
Ask the Cognitive Scientist: What Is Developmentally Appropriate Practice? (PDF)
Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley • Spring 2003
The Early Catastrophe: The 30 Million Word Gap by Age 3
E. D. Hirsch, Jr. • Spring 2006
Building Knowledge: The Case for Bringing Content into the Language Arts Block and for a Knowledge-Rich Curriculum Core for All Children
Catherine Paglin • Fall 2004
Practicing Prevention: How One School District Helps Students Avoid Reading Failure
Anita Sethi and LaRue Allen • Summer 2004
Bridging the Gap between Poor and Privileged: How the Parent-Child Home Program Uses Books and Toys to Help Poor Toddlers Succeed in Kindergarten and Beyond
Joseph K. Torgesen • Spring/Summer 1998
Catch Them Before They Fall: Identification and Assessment to Prevent Reading Failure in Young Children (PDF)
Hill M. Walker, Elizabeth Ramsey, and Frank M. Gresham • Winter 2003–2004
Heading Off Disruptive Behavior: How Early Intervention Can Reduce Defiant Behavior—and Win Back Teaching Time
Claude Goldenberg • Summer 2008
Teaching English Language Learners: What the Research Does—and Does Not—Say (PDF)
High School to College Transition
Jennifer Jacobson • Fall 2007
Focusing on the Forgotten: How to Put More Kids on the Track to College Success
Thad R. Nodine • Fall 2011
Hidalgo Sets Sail: A School District Supports All Students in Earning College Credits (PDF)
James E. Rosenbaum • Spring 2004
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)
James E. Rosenbaum, Jennifer L. Stephan, and Janet E. Rosenbaum • Fall 2010
Beyond One-Size-Fits-All College Dreams (PDF)
James E. Rosenbaum and Kelly Iwanaga Becker • Fall 2011
The Early College Challenge: Navigating Disadvantaged Students' Transition to College (PDF)
History, Civics, and Democracy
Walter Berns • Spring 2002
Mystic Chords of Memory: Cultivating America's Unique Form of Patriotism
Christopher L. Doyle • Winter 2011–2012
Invisible Wars: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Teaching Insurgencies in Public Schools (PDF)
Will Fitzhugh • Winter 2011–2012
Meaningful Work: How the History Research Paper Prepares Students for College and Life (PDF)
James Green • Winter 2008–2009
Why Teach Labor History? (PDF)
E. D. Hirsch, Jr. • Winter 2009–2010
Creating a Curriculum for the American People: Our Democracy Depends on Shared Knowledge (PDF)
Richard D. Kahlenberg • Fall 2007
The Agenda That Saved Public Education
Richard D. Kahlenberg • Summer 2008
Albert Shanker's Tough Liberalism (PDF)
Jill Lepore • Summer 2011
"Paul Revere's Ride": Awakening Abolitionists (PDF)
Herb Magidson • Summer 2008
Defending Democracy: Albert Shanker Still Leads the Way (PDF)
Arch Puddington • Summer 2008
Freedom in Retreat: Global Survey Reveals Pushback Against Democracy (PDF)
Diane Ravitch • Fall 2003
Leaving Reality Out: How Textbooks (Don't) Teach about Tyranny
Hill M. Walker, Elizabeth Ramsey, and Frank M. Gresham • Winter 2003–2004
Heading Off Disruptive Behavior: How Early Intervention Can Reduce Defiant Behavior—and Win Back Teaching Time
Hill M. Walker, Elizabeth Ramsey, and Frank M. Gresham • Winter 2003–2004
How Disruptive Students Escalate Hostility and Disorder—and How Teachers Can Avoid It
Richard Askey • Fall 1999
Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics (PDF)
William H. Schmidt, Leland S. Cogan, and Curtis C. McKnight • Winter 2010–2011
Equality of Educational Opportunity: Myth or Reality in U.S. Schooling? (PDF)
Daniel T. Willingham • Winter 2009–2010
Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Is It True That Some People Just Can't Do Math? (PDF)
Hung-Hsi Wu • Summer 2001
How to Prepare Students for Algebra
Hung-Hsi Wu • Fall 2009
What's Sophisticated about Elementary Mathematics? Plenty—That's Why Elementary Schools Need Math Teachers (PDF)
Hung-Hsi Wu • Fall 2011
Phoenix Rising: Bringing the Common Core State Mathematics Standards to Life (PDF)
Marilyn Jager Adams • Winter 2010–2011
Advancing Our Students' Language and Literacy: The Challenge of Complex Texts (PDF)
Andrew Biemiller • Spring 2003
Oral Comprehension Sets the Ceiling on Reading Comprehension
Jennifer Dubin • Fall 2008
Reading Richmond: How Scientifically Based Reading Instruction Is Dramatically Increasing Achievement (PDF)
E. D. Hirsch, Jr. • Spring 2006
Building Knowledge: The Case for Bringing Content into the Language Arts Block and for a Knowledge-Rich Curriculum Core for All Children
E. D. Hirsch, Jr. • Winter 2010–2011
Beyond Comprehension: We Have Yet to Adopt a Common Core Curriculum That Builds Knowledge Grade by Grade—But We Need To (PDF)
R. Malatesha Joshi, Rebecca Treiman, Suzanne Carreker, and Louisa C. Moats • Winter 2008–2009
How Words Cast Their Spell: Spelling Is an Integral Part of Learning the Language, Not a Matter of Memorization (PDF)
Susan B. Neuman • Fall 2010
Sparks Fade, Knowledge Stays: The National Early Literacy Panel's Report Lacks Staying Power (PDF)
Catherine Paglin • Fall 2004
Practicing Prevention: How One School District Helps Students Avoid Reading Failure
Joseph K. Torgesen • Fall 2004
Avoiding the Devastating Downward Spiral: The Evidence That Early Intervention Prevents Reading Failure
Kate Walsh • Spring 2003
Basal Readers: The Lost Opportunity to Build the Knowledge That Propels Comprehension (PDF)
Daniel T. Willingham • Winter 2006–2007
Ask the Cognitive Scientist: The Usefulness of Brief Instruction in Reading Comprehension Strategies (PDF)
Kevin M. Chatham-Stephens, Mana Mann, Andrea Wershof Schwartz, and Philip J. Landrigan • Winter 2011–2012
First, Do No Harm: Children's Environmental Health in Schools (PDF)
Karin Chenoweth • Summer 2007
Inside Philadelphia's M. Hall Stanton Elementary School
Karin Chenoweth • Fall 2009
Piece by Piece: How Schools Solved the Achievement Puzzle and Soared (PDF)
Karin Chenoweth • Summer 2007
Uncovering Academic Success
Jennifer Dubin • Spring 2009
From Picket Line to Partnership: A Union, A District, and Their Thriving Schools (PDF)
Michael B. Fabricant • Spring 2011
Organizing for Equity: Most Policymakers Have Done Little for Our Poorest Schools—Can Parents Fill the Void? (PDF)
Jennifer Jacobson • Spring 2007
In the Zone: How a Virtual District Provides Real Help for Really Struggling Schools
Julia E. Koppich • Winter 2002
Using Well-Qualified Teachers Well: The Right Teachers in the Right Places with the Right Support
Diane Ravitch • Summer 2010
In Need of a Renaissance: Real Reform Will Renew, Not Abandon, Our Neighborhood Schools (PDF)
Richard W. Riley and Arthur L. Coleman • Spring 2011
Turning the Page on the Equity Debate: How to Give All Children a Real Opportunity (PDF)
Timothy Ferris • Fall 2002
The Whole Shebang: How Science Produced the Big Bang Model
Paul R. Gross • Fall 2009
Learning Science: Content—With Reason (PDF)
Joy Hakim • Fall 2004
Fantastic Journey: How Scientists Figured Out the Shape and Size of the Earth
Joy Hakim • Spring 2002
The Story of the Atom (PDF)
Nora S. Newcombe • Summer 2010
Picture This: Increasing Math and Science Learning by Improving Spatial Thinking (PDF)
Deborah Loewenberg Ball and Francesca M. Forzani • Summer 2011
Building a Common Core for Learning to Teach (PDF)
Leo Casey • Summer 2007
The Quest for Professional Voice: Why It Has Been—and Continues to Be—High on Our Teacher Union Agenda
David K. Cohen • Winter 2010–2011
Learning to Teach Nothing in Particular: A Uniquely American Educational Dilemma (PDF)
Jennifer Goldstein • Fall 2008
Taking the Lead: With Peer Assistance and Review, the Teaching Profession Can Be in Teachers' Hands (PDF)
Sean D. Hamill • Fall 2011
Pittsburgh's Winning Partnership (PDF)
Richard D. Kahlenberg • Winter 2011–2012
Bipartisan, But Unfounded: The Assault on Teachers' Unions (PDF)
Louis Malfaro • Fall 2010
Lessons on Organizing for Power (PDF)
Lauren McArthur Harris and Robert B. Bain • Summer 2011
Pedagogical Content Knowledge for World History Teachers (PDF)
Jeffrey Mirel • Summer 2011
Bridging the "Widest Street in the World": Reflections on the History of Teacher Education (PDF)
Q&A with Maria Neira, Marcia Reback, Mary Cathryn Ricker, and Brenda Smith • Summer 2010
Continuous Improvement: Making Evaluation a Tool for Increasing Teacher—and Student—Learning (PDF)
Pasi Sahlberg • Summer 2011
Lessons from Finland (PDF)
Diana Senechal • Winter 2011–2012
The Cult of Success (PDF)
Patsy Wang-Iverson, Perla Myers, and Edmund Lim W.K. • Winter 2009–2010
Beyond Singapore's Mathematics Textbooks: Focused and Flexible Supports for Teaching and Learning (PDF)
Randi Weingarten • Spring 2010
A New Path Forward: Four Approaches to Quality Teaching and Better Schools (PDF)
Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown, and Linda Kucan • Spring 2003
Taking Delight in Words: Using Oral Language to Build Young Children's Vocabularies
Andrew Biemiller • Spring 2001
Teaching Vocabulary: Early, Direct, and Sequential
Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley • Spring 2003
The Early Catastrophe: The 30 Million Word Gap by Age 3
Steven Stahl • Spring 2003
Research Round-Up: How Words Are Learned Incrementally Over Multiple Exposures (PDF)
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