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American Educator, Summer 2002

Volume 26, no. 2

Notebook

Funding Opportunities

Lost at Sea

Without a Curriculum, Navigating Instruction Can Be Tough—Especially for New Teachers
David Kauffman, Susan Moore Johnson, Susan M. Kardos, Edward Liu, Heather G. Peske

The Cascading Benefits of a Common, Coherent Curriculum

A Coherent Curriculum

The Case of Mathematics
William Schmidt, Richard Houang, Leland Cohen

The Benefit to Equity

E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

The Benefit to Subject-Matter Knowledge

The Benefit to Professional Development

A Test Worth Teaching To

The IB's Course Guides and Exams Make a Good Marriage
Robert Rothman

Rewarding Requirements: A Closer Look at the IB

Excerpts from the IB History Exam

Teaching for the Test and the Students

Ask the Cognitive Scientist

Allocating Student Study Time: "Massed" versus "Distributed" Practice
Daniel T. Willingham

What Television Chases Out of Life

What TV Chases Out of the Classroom

Marie Winn