When You Cut the Arts, What Else Do You Lose?
This year, NCTE’s theme for its 2015 Annual Convention is Responsibility, Creativity and the Arts of Language. As Program Chair …
Should Federal Funding Follow Students from Public to Private Schools?
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) believe that federal funds should follow low-income students from public school …
If We Believe in Equity, Then We Fight Title I Portability
As part of its 2015 Education Policy Platform, NCTE encourages federal legislators to focus on equity, particularly “ensuring that …
Policies around Effective Use of Technology
Affirming in its 2015 Education Policy Platform that “[a] quality literacy education is a civil right”, NCTE declared it support[s] …
Teacher Voice Matters to Winning Support for Comprehensive Literacy Learning for All Students
On April 15, 2015, during the Senate markup of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), NCTE issued an Action …
An Invitation: Are You Walking the Talk in Your Content?
The following post is reprinted with permission from NCTE member Amy Rasmussen. It comes from her April 21, 2015 post …
Building Capacity to Tackle Education Equity
What can we do to ensure that disparity in life circumstances doesn’t result in disparity of access to a quality …
Time to Think about Teacher Leadership: For ALL Teachers
The Center for America Progress (CAP) recently issued the report, Teacher Leadership: The Pathway to Common Core Success , listing …
Jimmy Santiago Baca: Poetry as Lifesaver
The following post is excerpted from “Jimmy Santiago Baca: Poetry as Lifesaver,” an article by Rob Baker from the March …