A Free Press Begins at School
Last week NCTE joined a number of First Amendment groups to sign on a letter with the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) …
A Conference Framework to Champion Self-Advocacy
This post was written by members Marissa E. King and Karen Sheriff LeVan. Classrooms and especially student writing conferences should …
A Celebration of Reading Is Needed Now More Than Ever!
Censorship succeeds when no one talks about it; let’s make some noise. The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom As we …
A Book NCTE Is Proud to Defend
Sherman Alexie announced on Twitter last week, “I am the proud author of the most banned/challenged book of 2014.” He …
A Book Is a Precious Thing
Writing in this blog about how precious books are is, as they say, preaching to the choir. We are the …
A Book for the Ages
Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you …
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. …
A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl
Apparently Tanya Lee Stone’s book, A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl, was too bad for the Cody, …
2024 Divergent Awards Recognize NCTE Titles
This year, a number of NCTE publications earned Divergent Award distinctions. Congratulations to these NCTE authors! Restorying Young Adult Literature: …
14 Years Ago
September 11 has been declared a day of service, of giving of oneself, of volunteering for a cause we believe …