American Educator: Summer 2011

Notebook
Bridging the “Widest Street in the World”
Reflections on the History of Teacher Education Jeffrey Mirel
Pedagogical Content Knowledge for World History Teachers
Lauren McArthur Harris, Robert B. Bain
Building a Common Core for Learning to Teach
And Connecting Professional Learning to Practice Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Francesca M. Forzani
Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Can Teachers Increase Students’ Self-Control?
Daniel T. Willingham
“Paul Revere’s Ride”
Awakening Abolitionists Jill Lepore
Why I Force My Students to Memorize Poetry
Despite the Fact That It Won’t Be on the Standardized Test Andy Waddell
The Professional Educator: Lessons from Finland
Pasi Sahlberg