The American Federation of Teachers' quarterly, American Educator, often contains excellent material. That's true of the entire fall 2002 issue, consisting of a perceptive interview with master teacher (and nonagenarian) Jacques Barzun; an evocative essay ("Why I Teach") by veteran high school English teacher Patrick Welsh; thoughtful pieces on history, science and math; some lovely artwork; and a masterly 1948 essay on Huckleberry Finn (this "subversive book") by the late Lionel Trilling. Most articles are available online at http://www.aft.org/american_educator/. (To request a hard copy of an article that's not online, send an e-mail to [email protected].)
