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American Educator Author Index
Listed by author's last name. Articles not posted online are available. To request a copy, please send an e-mail to ae@aft.org.
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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
Williams, Louise
- Fall 2025- Expanding Access to College
Willingham, Daniel T.
- Spring 2026- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Do Today's Kids Have Reduced Attention Spans?
- Winter 2025-2026- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: What Do IQ Scores Mean?
- Spring 2025- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Understanding Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom
- Winter 2024-2025- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Understanding Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom
- Fall 2023- How to Read Difficult Books
- 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?
- Summer 2010- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Have Technology and Multitasking Rewired How Students Learn?
- Winter 2008-2009- Classroom Demonstrations of the Three Principles of Memory
- 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?
- Fall 2012- Measured Approach or Magical Elixir?
- Winter 2012-2013- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Are Sleepy Students Learning?
- Spring 2010- "21st-Century" Skills
- Winter 2008-2009- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: What Will Improve a Student's Memory?
- Spring 2009- Why Don't Students Like School?
- Spring 2012- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Why Does Family Wealth Affect Learning?
- Summer 2007- Critical Thinking
- Winter 2006-2007- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: The Usefulness of Brief Instruction in Reading Comprehension Strategies
- Summer 2008- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: What Is Developmentally Appropriate Practice?
- Summer 2011- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Can Teachers Increase Students’ Self-Control?
- Spring 2009- Can We Make School More Enjoyable—and Effective—for "Slow" Students Too?
- Winter 2007-2008- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Should Learning Be Its Own Reward?
- Winter 2005-2006- Examples of Constructive Praise and Encouraging Comments
- 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
- Spring 2006- Knowledge in the Classroom
- Summer 2005- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Do Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners Need Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Instruction?
- Winter 2004-2005- Ask the Cognitive Scientist
- Winter 2005-2006- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: How Praise Can Motivate—or Stifle
- Summer 2004- Ask the Cognitive Scientist
- Summer 2002- Ask the Cognitive Scientist
- Spring 2006- How Knowledge Helps
- Summer 2005- How Has Modality Theory Been Tested?
- Summer 2005- The Content's Best Modality Is Key
- Fall 2006- How Neuroscience Could Help...
- Winter 2003-2004- How to Help Students See When Their Knowledge Is Superficial or Incomplete
- Summer 2007- You Probably Solved the Puzzle Based on Hansel and Gretel—Now Try This One Based on Chao Chong
- Summer 2003- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Students Remember...What They Think About
- Winter 2002- Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Inflexible Knowledge: The First Step to Expertise
- Fall 2006- Ask the Cognitive Scientist
Wilson, Edward O.
- Spring 2002- The Power of Story
Wilson, Richard
- Spring 2007- Every Day Low Prices ... and Wages
Wilson, Suzanne M.
- Fall 2001- Steady Work
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
- Spring 2025- Learning to Verify
- Fall 2017- The Challenge That's Bigger Than Fake News
- Winter 2012-2013- Undue Certainty
Wink, Lyric
- Fall 1996- Students Want More Discipline, Disruptive Classmates Out
- Spring Summer 1998- The Little Bookstore That Grew to a Thousand
Winn, Marie
- Summer 2002- What TV Chases Out of the Classroom
Wohl, Alexander
- Fall 2001- The School Marketplace
Wolfson, Todd
- Spring 2026- A Better Future for All
Wong, Connie
- Summer 2015- Connecting the Dots
Woods, Emily
- Fall 2023- Collaborative Community Schools
- Summer 2023- Collaborative Community Schools
Wright, Tanya S.
- Winter 2021-2022- Sharing Their Ideas with the World
- Winter 2018-2019- Reading to Learn from the Start
- Summer 2014- Evidence of Student Learning
- Summer 2014- The Magic of Words
- Spring 2009- Purposeful, Playful Pre-K
Wu, Hung-Hsi
- Fall 2011- Phoenix Rising
- Fall 2009- Teaching the Standard Algorithms
- Fall 2011- Understanding Numbers in Elementary School Mathematics
- Summer 2001- How to Prepare Students for Algebra
- Fall 2009- Understanding Place Value
- Fall 2011- A University-Level Look at Adding Fractions and Multiplying Negative Numbers
- Fall 1999- Basic Skills versus Conceptual Understanding
- Fall 2009- What's Sophisticated about Elementary Mathematics?
- Fall 2011- The Fundamental Principles of Mathematics
- Fall 2009- Defining Fractions
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Yenawine, Philip
- Spring 2019- Art in School
Young, Craig M.
- Winter 2007-2008- The Deep Seafloor: A Desert Devoid of Life?
Yurco, Frank J.
- Spring 1994- How To Teach Ancient History
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Zaloom, Caitlin M.
- Fall 2021- Indebted No More
Zamarrón, Kathryn
- Fall 2025- Keeping Our Students Safe
Zehr, Mary Ann
- Winter 2017-2018- The Professional Educator: Celebrating the Voices of Immigrant Students
Ziblatt, Daniel
- Fall 2020- The Crisis of American Democracy
Zielezinski, Molly B.
- Summer 2017- Promising Practices for Education Technology
Zimmermann, Laura
- Winter 2018-2019- Spatial Thinking and STEM
Zoleo, Dina
- Fall 2023- Helping Your Child Become a Writer
Zurawsky, Chris
- Spring 2005- Getting Back on Course