Tips for Teaching Difficult Texts
These tips were contributed by NCTE member Mollie Blackburn, author of the recent NCTE book, Adventurous Thinking: Fostering Students’ Rights to …
Expanding Our Ideas through Books
This post by Millie Davis appeared first in 2015. “We want students to engage texts, to interrogate texts, to demand …
Harry Potter’s Birthday
It’s a double birthday! J.K. Rowling was born July 31, 1965, in Bristol, England. From the stories that Rowling tells …
What Books Are on Your Shelf?
I challenge you to take a look at the books on your office or classroom shelf and see how well …
Is Speech Free at Your University?
As noted by theFire.org, Public universities are bound by the First Amendment. Their policies and practices must protect, and never …
Recognizing the Success of the Humanities Community: An Update from the National Humanities Alliance
This post was contributed by Beatrice Gurwitz, deputy director of the National Humanities Alliance (NHA), of which NCTE is a member. This …
The Power of Journalism
African American journalist Ida B. Wells was born on July 16, 1862. Ida B. Wells’s work as a journalist provided …
Who Gets to Decide?
This week I bumped into two different stories on the radio. Each was discussing the questions “Who gets to decide?” …
Texts, Your Students, and the First Amendment
For many years, American schools have been pressured to restrict or deny students access to texts deemed objectionable by some …