American Educator: Fall 2013
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Where We Stand
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News in Brief
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Tools for Teachers and Resources
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Letting the Text Take Center Stage
How the Common Core State Standards Will Transform English Language Arts InstructionThere is an iconic childhood moment that spans generations. My father, a boy in a clapboarded, one-room schoolhouse, along with the only other student in his grade, endured it; I timidly shared the experience with 50 Pattys, Connies, and Billys shoehorned tightly into an amber-lit classroom; the...
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A. Philip Randolph
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Bayard Rustin
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Strengthening the Student Toolbox
Study Strategies to Boost LearningIt's the night before her biology exam, and the high school student has just begun to study. She takes out her highlighter and reads her textbook, marking it up as she goes along. She rereads sentences that seem most important and stays up most of the night, just hoping to get a good enough...
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Walter Reuther
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ShareMyLesson
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Teaching the March on Washington
On August 28, 1963, the March on Washington captivated the nation's attention. Nearly a quarter-million people—African Americans and whites, Christians and Jews, along with those of other races and creeds—gathered in the nation's capital. They came from across the country to demand equal rights...
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The Move to Unity
Labor's Role in the March on WashingtonNearly every American and millions of people around the world are familiar with Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, yet most know little about the March on Washington at which it was delivered. The tremendous eloquence and elegant simplicity of the speech meant that many, then and...
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Key Figures behind the March
Randolph, the Consensus-BuilderA. Philip Randolph
Life: 1889 –1979
Born: Crescent City, FL
Work: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, President
Role in March: ArchitectThe only person allowed a good night's sleep on...
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Key Figures behind the March
Rustin, the Coordinator ExtraordinaireBayard Rustin
Life: 1912–1987
Born: West Chester, PA
Work: Civil rights activist
Role in March: Chief OrganizerAfter years of controversy, Bayard Rustin lived for the day when he would...
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Key Figures behind the March
Reuther, the Labor AllyWalter Reuther
Life: 1907–1970
Born: Wheeling, WV
Work: United Auto Workers, President
Role in March: Speaker, SupporterWalter Reuther bathed in applause after delivering his speech at...
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Living History
Two Civil Rights Activists Remember the March on WashingtonThere is little reason to believe that late August was any kinder a thousand years ago in the swampy wilderness that hugged a bulging curve of the Potomac River than it was in the early years of the seventh decade of the 20th century. By 1963, the swamps were long gone. So were the area's...