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American Educator Author Index
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Weingarten, Randi
- Summer 2023- Defending Public Education
- Summer 2023- Where We Stand: Who Has Freedom, and Who Doesn’t, in Ron DeSantis’s Florida?
- Spring 2023- Where We Stand: Winning the Race Between Fear and Hope
- Winter 2022-2023- Where We Stand: Freeing Our Kids from Fear—and Helping Them Recover and Thrive
- Fall 2022- Where We Stand: Reclaiming Our Future
- Summer 2022- Where We Stand: Championing a Better Life for All
- Spring 2022- Where We Stand: Recovering Together
- Winter 2021-2022- Where We Stand: Empathy for All
- Fall 2021- Where We Stand: Reopening Schools Means Prioritizing Safety for Students and Staff
- Summer 2021- Where We Stand: Let's Seed a Renaissance in Our Public Schools
- Spring 2021- Where We Stand: Tools, Time, and Trust—The Keys to Reopening and Recovery
- Winter 2020-2021- Where We Stand: Let’s Build Back Better Together
- Fall 2020- Where We Stand: Trump Chooses Chaos, We Choose Community
- Summer 2020- Heroes and Helpers Fighting COVID-19
- Summer 2020- Where We Stand: For the Love of Reading
- Spring 2020- Where We Stand: Supporting All Children as If They Were Our Own
- Winter 2019-2020- Where We Stand: A Beacon of Hope on Climate Change
- Fall 2019- Where We Stand: A Defining Moment for Democracy
- Summer 2019- Where We Stand: The Freedom to Teach
- Spring 2019- Where We Stand: Confronting the Scourge of Gun Violence
- Winter 2018-2019- Where We Stand: No Time to Lower Our Defenses
- Fall 2018- Where We Stand: Achieving Together What We Cannot Do Alone
- Summer 2018- The Need for Civics Education
- Summer 2018- Activating Student Engagement
- Summer 2018- The Power of Active Citizenship
- Summer 2018- Where We Stand: Renewing Adult Civic Engagement
- Spring 2018- Where We Stand: Fighting for the Right to Rise
- Winter 2017-2018- Where We Stand: Protecting Our Country’s Proud Immigrant Tradition
- Fall 2017- Where We Stand: Private School Choice—Past and Present
- Summer 2017- Where We Stand: Understanding History to Fight Tyranny
- Spring 2017- Where We Stand: Four Pillars for Successful Schools
- Winter 2016-2017- Where We Stand: We Must Keep Widening the Circle of Inclusion
- Fall 2016- Where We Stand: Engaging Students to Show What They Know
- Summer 2016- Where We Stand: Honoring Our Past and Inspiring Our Future
- Spring 2016- Where We Stand: A Reset We Need to Get Right
- Winter 2015-2016- Where We Stand: Moving Past Punishment Toward Support
- Fall 2015- Where We Stand: Schools at the Center of Communities
- Summer 2015- Where We Stand: Why Unions Must Keep Up the Fight
- Spring 2015- Where We Stand: Reading—A Lifelong Love
- Winter 2014-2015- Where We Stand: Worth Fighting For
- Fall 2014- Where We Stand: Engaging Hands and Minds
- Winter 2013–2014- Where We Stand: Pushing Forward Together
- Summer 2013- The Professional Educator: Six Steps to Effective Teacher Development and Evaluation
- Spring 2010- The Professional Educator: A New Path Forward: Four Approaches to Quality Teaching and Better Schools
Welsh, Patrick
- Fall 2002- Opening Minds
Wexler, Natalie
- Summer 2020- Building Knowledge
- Summer 2017- One Sentence at a Time
Whitehurst, Grover J. Russ
- Fall 2010- Higher Education and the Economy
Whittaker, Anne Marie
- Summer 2007- A Place for Poetry
Widder , Edith
- Winter 2007-2008- Living Lights in the Sea
Widmer, Ted
- Winter 2007-2008- Navigating the Age of Exploration
Wiener, Ross
- Spring 2014- Survey Says
Wilder, Tamara
- Spring 2009- Grading Education
Wilkinson, Richard
- Spring 2011- Greater Equality
Willingham, Daniel T.
- Summer 2023- How to Read Difficult Books
- Winter 2022-2023- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Does Developing a Growth Mindset Help Students Learn?
- Summer 2021- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Why Do Students Remember Everything That's on Television and Forget Everything I Say?
- Fall 2020- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: How Can Educators Teach Critical Thinking?
- Summer 2019- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Should Teachers Know the Basic Science of How Children Learn?
- Summer 2018- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Does Tailoring Instruction to “Learning Styles” Help Students Learn?
- Fall 2017- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Do Manipulatives Help Students Learn?
- Summer 2016- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: “Grit” Is Trendy, But Can It Be Taught?
- Fall 2015- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Do Students Remember What They Learn in School?
- Spring 2015- For the Love of Reading
- Summer 2014- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Math Anxiety: Can Teachers Help Students Reduce It?
- Spring 2010- "21st-Century" Skills
- Spring 2009- Why Don't Students Like School?
- Spring 2012- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Why Does Family Wealth Affect Learning?
- Winter 2012-2013- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Are Sleepy Students Learning?
- Spring 2009- Can We Make School More Enjoyable—and Effective—for "Slow" Students Too?
- Winter 2008-2009- Classroom Demonstrations of the Three Principles of Memory
- Summer 2010- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Have Technology and Multitasking Rewired How Students Learn?
- Summer 2007- Critical Thinking
- Winter 2006-2007- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: The Usefulness of Brief Instruction in Reading Comprehension Strategies
- Winter 2009-2010- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Is It True That Some People Just Can't Do Math?
- Spring 2009- How Can Learning Facts Make Thinking More Enjoyable—and More Effective?
- Winter 2008-2009- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: What Will Improve a Student's Memory?
- Summer 2011- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Can Teachers Increase Students’ Self-Control?
- Fall 2012- Measured Approach or Magical Elixir?
- Summer 2008- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: What Is Developmentally Appropriate Practice?
- Winter 2005-2006- Examples of Constructive Praise and Encouraging Comments
- Summer 2007- You Probably Solved the Puzzle Based on Hansel and Gretel—Now Try This One Based on Chao Chong
- Spring 2006- Knowledge in the Classroom
- Winter 2003-2004- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Why Students Think They Understand—When They Don't
- Spring 2004- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Practice Makes Perfect—But Only If You Practice beyond the Point of Perfection
- Winter 2007-2008- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Should Learning Be Its Own Reward?
- Summer 2003- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Students Remember...What They Think About
- Summer 2005- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Do Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners Need Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Instruction?
- Winter 2005-2006- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: How Praise Can Motivate—or Stifle
- Winter 2002- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Inflexible Knowledge: The First Step to Expertise
- Spring 2006- How Knowledge Helps
- Fall 2006- How Neuroscience Could Help...
- Summer 2005- The Content's Best Modality Is Key
- Summer 2005- How Has Modality Theory Been Tested?
- Winter 2003-2004- How to Help Students See When Their Knowledge Is Superficial or Incomplete
Wilson, Richard
- Spring 2007- Every Day Low Prices ... and Wages
Wilson, William Julius
- Spring 2011- Being Poor, Black, and American
Wilson , Richard
- Spring 2007- How Wal-Mart Is (Mis)Shaping the Global Economy
Wineburg, Sam
- Fall 2017- The Challenge That's Bigger Than Fake News
- Winter 2012-2013- Undue Certainty