We Shouldn’t Always Feel Comfortable: Why ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Matters
This blog, written by Christina Torres is reprinted from the October 15, 2017, Education Week Teacher, and published with permission from …
A Book Ban Like No Other
A few weeks ago a newspaper editor from the Panhandle of Florida contacted the Intellectual Freedom Center with a challenge. …
Road to Convention and Beyond: What OUR Students and I Have Been Sharing
PLEDGE We write to live And live to write Our eyes on the prize It’s still in sight We got …
In Honor of This Year’s National Day on Writing, Write for Civic Action!
The following post was written by Nicole Mirra and is part of an ongoing monthly series from the NCTE Standing Committee on …
Permission to Find Your Own Writing Process
I’ve been thinking about writing more than usual because, as you’ve no doubt heard, the National Day on Writing is October …
What Happened in Your State This September?
During September, thirteen policy analysts published reports about what occurred in Arizona, California, the District of Columbia, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, New …
The Right to Write Ourselves
Just as our students must have the right to read, broadly and with choice, they also must have the right …
The Students’ Right To Read Redux
Following is a collection of the best of the blogs on The Students’ Right to Read, what it is, how …
More Than the Right to Read
This post is written by NCTE historian Jonna Perrillo. It also appeared in Education Week’s Commentary Section on September 25. …
Words Have Power
This blog was written by Kristin Pekoll is the Assistant Director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. …