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American Educator, Winter 2019-2020

Volume 43, no. 4

Where We Stand: A Beacon of Hope on Climate Change

Randi Weingarten

Teaching Climate Change

What Educators Should Know and Can Do
Daniel P. Shepardson, Andrew S. Hirsch

Science Teachers in the Hot Seat

Climate Change Education in a Polarized Society
Glenn Branch

Climate Change in the Classroom

A Natural Part of English Language Arts
Richard Beach, Jeff Share, Allen Webb

Teaching a Short Story (or Stories) about the Climate Crisis

Richard Beach, Jeff Share, Allen Webb

Bringing a Literacy Focus into the Science Classroom

How Complex Texts Can Help
Linda Friedrich, Willard Brown, Heather Howlett

Share My Lesson

Teaching about Climate Change

Teachers, Public Education, and Organized Labor

Helping Democracy Thrive
Fred van Leeuwen

Education and Democracy

Fred van Leeuwen

Understanding Chronic Absenteeism

What Research Tells Us about Poor Attendance at School
Valerie L. Marsh

Union Highlights