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

Teachers, Public Education, and Organized Labor

Helping Democracy Thrive

Fred van Leeuwen

Understanding Chronic Absenteeism

What Research Tells Us about Poor Attendance at School

Valerie L. Marsh

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