Advocate for New Voices
Student journalists need the First Amendment as much as their adult counterparts do, but they don’t always get the same protection. …
Choosing Texts = Advocacy for Student Learning
How do you choose the texts your students will read? An English Education article discusses the results of a survey on …
One Affiliate Supports Intellectual Freedom Through Advocacy
Two years ago a Virginia parent challenged the use of Toni Morrison’s Beloved in her son’s class but the school …
To Select or To Deselect
“I’m not going to say, ‘this book is about rape, child abuse, and so-and-so,’ because that doesn’t do justice to …
“Nobody Has the Right to Tell You How to Write…How to Think”
The title of this blog comes from the trailer of the film Trumbo about screenwriter Dalton Trumbo who lived through, wrote …
Windows, Mirrors, and Sliding Doors
When the Black Caucus of NCTE established the African American Read-In (AARI) over 25 years ago, their ambitious yet confident …
Working for Intellectual Freedom in the Field – Three
At the 2015 Annual Convention, Rod Wagner, director of the Nebraska Library Commission, was one of two individuals nominated by …
Fighting for Intellectual Freedom in the Field Two
At the 2015 Annual Convention, Katie Wright was one of two individuals, nominated by an affiliate and honored for her …
Fighting for Intellectual Freedom in the Field: Marge Ford
At the 2015 Annual Convention, Margaret Ford was one of two individuals nominated by an affiliate and honored for her …
Laurie Halse Anderson Speaks for Intellectual Freedom
On November 21, 2015, at the NCTE Convention, Laurie Halse Anderson (pictured on the left with Joan Kaywell on the …