A Spring Full of Learning, Advocacy, and Leadership
A leading reason people belong to associations is the understanding that with a collective voice they can speak louder about …
Sneak Peek at the March English Journal — The Essence of Improvement: Leadership in Language Arts Instruction
David Gorlewski and Julie Gorlewski are the editors of English Journal. To lead people is to walk beside them. As …
Parkland, Florida, Meets Vietnam
At the height of the Vietnam War in 1965 Mary Beth Tinker was a 13-year-old middle schooler. She and some …
What Happened in Your State This February?
During February, twelve policy analysts published reports about what occurred in Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, …
Who Gets to Tell What History?
This month, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal passed a law criminalizing public discussion of Polish complicity in Nazi war crimes. Hard …
Love’s In Need of Love Today: Public Education in Troubled Times
This post was written by members Ted Kesler and Jane Bean-Folkes. The Fall 2017 blog post from NCTE’s Standing Committee …
On Building Walls, On What They Cost
This post was written by member Erin O’Neill Armendarez. Amid threats of a government shutdown and gridlock over the DACA …
Uncomfortable Texts
There’s been a brouhaha in Duluth, Minnesota, where earlier this month, the superintendent declared that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn …
Same as It Ever Was
This post was written by member Peg Grafwallner. I recently found a note that went home with 12-year-old me in …
The Post, The First Amendment, and The Student Press
I went to see The Post the other day, and I confess that I cried when the Supreme Court ruled …