Using Literature to Shatter Our Entrenched Views, Part I
Pulitzer-Prize–winning journalist Sonia Nazario was the keynote speaker at NCTE’s 2014 Annual Convention. What follows is her reflection three years …
Unexpected Rewards: Teacher Corps Empowers and Invigorates
NCTE has long promoted intellectual freedom and defended against attempts to remove books from schools. In the face of unprecedented …
Uncomfortable Texts
There’s been a brouhaha in Duluth, Minnesota, where earlier this month, the superintendent declared that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn …
Twitter as an Advocacy Tool
The following post was written by Lu Ann McNabb for the new Friday Advocacy feature of this blog. According to …
Turning Our Attention to the Word Decolonize
From the NCTE Standing Committee on Global Citizenship This post was written by NCTE member Rex Ovalle, a member of …
Truth’s in Need of Truth Today: Public Education in Troubled Times
This post was written by members Catherine Compton-Lilly and Julia López-Robertson. “Love’s In Need of Love Today” was the …
Trouble in Comic Land
Comic-Con has come and gone but challenges to comic books/graphic novels continue. Challengers have recently complained about two renowned graphic …
Trigger Warnings Threaten Our Students’ Learning
In his article in the September English Journal, Adam Wolfsdorf tells us that “When It Comes To High School English, …
Today Starts Banned Books Week
Banned Books Week 2019 will be held September 22–28. The theme of this year’s event is “Censorship Leaves Us in …
To Select or To Deselect
“I’m not going to say, ‘this book is about rape, child abuse, and so-and-so,’ because that doesn’t do justice to …