American Educator: Spring 2016
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Where We Stand
A Reset We Need to Get RightThe day after President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in December, the American Federation of Teachers convened a telephone town hall about the new law. More than 172,000 educators and activists called in—the response was unprecedented. The number one issue raised was: How...
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News in Brief
Outrage in Detroit
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Putting the Focus on Student Engagement
The Benefits of Performance-Based Assessment... -
Learning on Display
On a cloudy afternoon in January, I am sitting in a coffee shop near Hunter College waiting for a 17-year-old girl named Micaela Beigel, a student at a New York City public school called Urban Academy Laboratory High School. We have never met before, but I am here to pass judgment on one of her...
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Sample Performance Task and Rubric
All Consortium schools require students to complete academic tasks to demonstrate college and career readiness and to qualify for graduation. In some classes, the tasks are crafted by the teacher, and in other instances, by the student. All graduation-level tasks, like the literature one shown...
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Technology in Education
What Teachers Should Know...
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Building Strong Children
Why We Need Nurses in Schools...
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School Nurses Make a Difference
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Understanding Misconceptions
Teaching and Learning in Middle School Physical Science...
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Narrative Nonfiction
A Writer Reflects on Writing Real Stories...
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Understanding the New Federal Education Law
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The Question of Money and Education
Increasingly, political rhetoric adheres to the unfounded certainty that money doesn’t make a difference in education, and that reduced funding is unlikely to harm educational quality. Such proclamations have even been used to justify large cuts to education budgets over the past few years....
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Share My Lesson
Building a Classroom Community...