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Ask the Cognitive Scientist
Community Schools
Curriculum
Early Childhood
Early Intervention
English Language Learners
History, Civics, and Democracy
Improving Student Behavior
Math
Reading
School-Wide Improvement
Science
Standards and Accountability
Teacher Professionalism
Vocabulary
"What Will Improve a Student's Memory?" Winter 2008–2009.
"What Is Developmentally Appropriate Practice?" Summer 2008.
"Should Learning Be Its Own Reward?" Winter 2007–2008.
"The Usefulness of Brief Instruction in Reading Comprehension Strategies," Winter 2006–2007.
"'Brain-Based' Learning: More Fiction Than Fact," Fall 2006.
"How Praise Can Motivate—or Stifle," Winter 2005–2006.
"Do Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners Need Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Instruction?" Summer 2005.
For other "Ask the Cognitive Scientist" articles by Daniel T. Willingham, click here.
Lee Benson, Lee Harkavy, Michael Johanek, and John Puckett, "The Enduring Appeal of Community Schools," Summer 2009.
Marty Blank, Reuben Jacobson, and Sarah S. Pearson, "A Coordinated Effort," Summer 2009.
Jennifer Dubin, "These Kids Are Alright," Summer 2009.
Q&A on Cincinnati's Community Learning Centers, "From the Ground Up," Summer 2009.
Richard Rothstein, "Equalizing Opportunity," Summer 2009.
Jane Quinn and Joy Dryfoos, "Freeing Teachers to Teach," Summer 2009.
Nell K. Duke, V. Susan Bennett-Armistead, and Ebony M. Roberts, "Filling the Great Void," Spring 2003.
E. D. Hirsch Jr., "You Can Always Look It Up . . . Or Can You?" Spring 2000.
E. D. Hirsch Jr., "Building Knowledge," Spring 2006.
Peter Kalkavage, "The Neglected Muse: Why Music Is an Essential Liberal Art," Fall 2006.
William Schmidt, Richard Houang, and Leland Cogan, "A Coherent Curriculum," Summer 2002.
William Schmidt, "The Role of Curriculum," Fall 2005.
Daniel T. Willingham, "How Knowledge Helps," Spring 2006.
Daniel T. Willingham, "Critical Thinking: Why Is It So Hard to Teach?" Summer 2007.
Darion Griffin and Giselle Lundy-Ponce, "At the Starting Line," Summer 2003.
Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley, "The Early Catastrophe," Spring 2003.
Robert G. Lynch, "Preschool Pays: High-Quality Early Education Would Save Billions," Winter 2004–2005.
Anita Sethi and LaRue Allen, "Bridging the Gap Between Poor and Privileged," Summer 2004.
Daniel T. Willingham, "What Is Developmentally Appropriate Practice?" Summer 2008.
Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley, "The Early Catastrophe," Spring 2003.
E. D. Hirsch Jr., "Building Knowledge," Spring 2006.
Robert G. Lynch, "Preschool Pays: High-Quality Early Education Would Save Billions," Winter 2004–2005.
Catherine Paglin, "Practicing Prevention: One District's Success," Fall 2004.
Anita Sethi and LaRue Allen, "Bridging the Gap Between Poor and Privileged," Summer 2004.
Joseph K. Torgesen, "Catch Them Before They Fall," Spring/Summer 1998.
Hill M. Walker, Elizabeth Ramsey, and Frank M. Gresham, "Heading Off Disruption," Winter 2003–2004.
Claude Goldenberg, "Teaching English Language Learners: What the Research Does—and Does Not—Say," Summer 2008.
History, Civics, and Democracy
Walter Berns, "Mystic Chords of Memory," Spring 2002.
Paul Gagnon, "In Pursuit of a Civic Core," Fall 2003.
James Green, "Why Teach Labor History?" Winter 2008–2009.
Richard D. Kahlenberg, "The Agenda That Saved Public Education," Fall 2007.
Richard D. Kahlenberg, "Albert Shanker's Tough Liberalism," Summer 2008.
Roger Kimball, "Can Plutarch Regain Popularity?" Fall 2007.
Herb Magidson, "Defending Democracy: Albert Shanker Still Leads the Way," Summer 2008.
Wilfred M. McClay, "American History," Fall 2002.
Elizabeth McPike, "Education for Democracy," Fall 2003.
Azar Nafisi, "Women's Rights—Not Just for Westerners," Fall 2004.
David L. Parker, "Before Their Time: Child Labor Around the World," Spring 2008.
Arch Puddington, "Freedom in Retreat: Global Survey Reveals Pushback Against Democracy," Summer 2008.
Arch Puddington, "Freedom's Opposite," Fall 2003.
Diane Ravitch, "Leaving Reality Out," Fall 2003.
Gilbert T. Sewall, "Teaching Plutarch in the Age of Hollywood," Fall 2007.
Hill M. Walker, Elizabeth Ramsey, and Frank M. Gresham, "Heading Off Disruptive Behavior," Winter 2003–2004.
Hill M. Walker, Elizabeth Ramsey, and Frank M. Gresham, "How Disruptive Students Escalate Hostility and Disorder—and How Teachers Can Avoid It," Winter 2003–2004.
Ron Aharoni, "What I Learned in Elementary School," Fall 2005.
Richard Askey, "Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics," Fall 1999.
Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Heather C. Hill, and Hyman Bass, "Knowing Mathematics for Teaching," Fall 2005.
David Berlinski, "Inventing Numbers," Fall 2002.
Steve Silverman, "Mayday at 41,000 Feet!" Winter 2003–2004.
H. Wu, "How to Prepare Students for Algebra," Summer 2001.
H. Wu, "What's Sophisticated about Elementary Mathematics?" Fall 2009.
Andrew Biemiller, "Research Round-Up: Oral Comprehension Sets the Ceiling on Reading Comprehension," Spring 2003.
Jeanne S. Chall and Vicki A. Jacobs, "Research Round-Up: Poor Children's Fourth-Grade Slump," Spring 2003.
Jennifer Dubin, "Reading Richmond: How Scientifically Based Reading Instruction Is Dramatically Increasing Achievement," Fall 2008.
Jan Hasbrouck, "Drop Everything and Read—But How?" Summer 2006.
E. D. Hirsch Jr., "Building Knowledge," Spring 2006.
R. Malatesha Joshi, Rebecca Treiman, Suzanne Carreker, and Louisa C. Moats, "How Words Cast Their Spell," Winter 2008–2009.
Catherine Paglin, "Practicing Prevention: One District's Success," Fall 2004.
Joseph K. Torgesen, "Preventing Early Reading Failure—and It's Devastating Downward Spiral," Fall 2004.
Kate Walsh, "Lost Opportunity," Spring 2003.
Daniel T. Willingham, "The Usefulness of Brief Instruction in Reading Comprehension Strategies," Winter 2006–2007.
Karin Chenoweth, "Inside Philadelphia's M. Hall Stanton Elementary School," Summer 2007.
Karin Chenoweth, "Piece By Piece: How Schools Solved the Achievement Puzzle and Soared," Fall 2009.
Karin Chenoweth, "Uncovering Academic Success," Summer 2007.
Antonia Cortese, "Get Real: Here's the Boost that Poor Children, Their Teachers, and Their Schools Really Need," Spring 2007.
Jennifer Jacobson, "In the Zone: How a Virtual District Provides Real Help for Really Struggling Schools," Spring 2007.
Julia E. Koppich, "Using Well-Qualified Teachers Well: The Right Teachers in the Right Places with the Right Support," Winter 2002.
Timothy Ferris, "The Whole Shebang," Fall 2002.
Paul R. Gross, "Learning Science: Content—With Reason," Fall 2009.
Joy Hakim, "Fantastic Journey: How Scientists Figured Out the Shape and Size of the Earth," Fall 2004.
Joy Hakim, "The Story of the Atom," Spring 2002.
Megan Sullivan and Steve Metz, "Science Careers for the 'Why Take Science?' Crowd," Winter 2006–2007.
American Diploma Project, "What Does It Mean To Be Prepared for College?" Spring 2004.
John Cole, "Keeping Score: Why Standards and Accountability—Done Right—Are Good for Schools, Teachers, and Kids," Spring 2005.
John Cronin, Michael Dahlin, Deborah Adkins, and G. Gage Kingsbury, "The Proficiency Illusion," Winter 2007–2008.
Chester E. Finn Jr. and Michael J. Petrilli, "Conjuring Cut Scores," Winter 2007–2008.
Heidi Glidden, "Common Ground: Clear, Specific Content Holds Teaching, Texts, and Tests Together," Spring 2008.
Heidi Glidden and Amy M. Hightower, "Mismatch: When State Standards and Tests Don't Mesh, Schools Are Left Grinding Their Gears," Spring 2007.
Paul R. Gross, "No Contest: Up Close, Typical State Biology Standards Don't Have the Content or Coherence of the International Baccalaureate," Spring 2008.
Daniel Koretz, "A Measured Approach: Value-Added Models Are a Promising Improvement, but No One Measure Can Evaluate Teacher Performance," Fall 2008.
Daniel Koretz, "Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us," Fall 2008.
E. D. Hirsch Jr., "Plugging the Hole in State Standards: One Man's Modest Proposal for Infusing More Content into the Literacy Block and Making Reading Tests More Equitable," Spring 2008.
Lauren Resnick and Chris Zurawsky, "Getting Back on Course: Fixing Standards-Based Reform and Accountability," Spring 2005.
William H. Schmidt, "What's Missing from Math Standards? Focus, Rigor, and Coherence," Spring 2008.
Roger Shattuck, "Curriculum First: A Case History," Spring 2005.
Leo Casey, "The Quest for Professional Voice: Why It Has Been—and Continues to Be—High on Our Teacher Union Agenda," Summer 2007.
Jennifer Goldstein, "Taking the Lead: With Peer Assistance and Review, the Teaching Profession Can Be in Teachers' Hands," Fall 2008.
Lynn W. Gregory, Nancy Nevarez, and Alexandra T. Weinbaum, "Remedying the Teacher Experience Gap: Cultivate the Right Solution: It's Attracting and Retaining Experienced Teachers," Winter 2006-2007.
Richard D. Kahlenberg, "The Agenda That Saved Public Education," Fall 2007.
Richard D. Kahlenberg, "Peer Assistance and Review," Fall 2007.
Erich Martel, "Protecting Academic Standards: How My Union Makes It Possible," Winter 2006–2007.
F. Howard Nelson, "Remedying the Teacher Experience Gap: Recognize the Real Cause: It's Not Collective Bargaining," Winter 2006–2007.
Diane Ravitch, "Why Teacher Unions Are Good for Teachers—and the Public," Winter 2006–2007.
Neil S. Rosenfeld, "Nurturing Teacher Knowledge: How Union-Led Professional Development Is Raising Reading Achievement," Winter 2006–2007.
Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown, and Linda Kucan, "Taking Delight in Words," Spring 2003.
Andrew Biemiller, "Teaching Vocabulary," Spring 2001.
Steven Stahl, "Research Round-Up: Words Are Learned Incrementally Over Multiple Exposures," Spring 2003.
