Reading Because We Love It
This past Saturday, my book group held its annual book choosing, a day we gather to eat finger food, bask …
Reading Because They Love It
I feel certain that one goal we teachers have for our students is that they to leave our classes to …
Read It, Write About It, Understand
Photo: Ashburn Colored School Let’s be clear. NCTE never supports using writing or reading as punishment. But that’s what Virginia judge …
Racism Drove Arizona’s Ban of Tucson Mexican-American Studies Program
Last week, U.S. District Judge A. Wallace Tashima ruled that the state of Arizona violated students’ 1st and 14th Amendment …
Protecting Scholarship
The work of NCTE’s Intellectual Freedom Center is visible, more often than not, for defense of challenged books in K-12 …
Promoting the Pleasures of Reading: Why It Matters to Kids and to Country
This post is written by member Jeffrey Wilhelm. Reading Unbound: Why Kids Need to Read What They Want and Why …
Promoting Civic Engagement through Inquiry-Based Personal Narrative
This post is by member Brittany Collins. “Who are you?” was the most perplexing question anyone had asked me at …
Professional Learning Worth Having
Every educator has at least one professional development horror story, and those make it hard to imagine advocating FOR more …
Professing While Teaching
This post is written by member Matthew Boedy. As is usual in first-year composition, I assigned a research project to …
Principles for Online Writing Instruction
What defines good online writing instruction, and why does this definition matter? The Conference on College Composition and Communication has …