What Happened in Your State This February?
During February, twelve policy analysts published reports about what occurred in Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, …
Lines on the Court, Lines in the Poem: March Madness and Poetry Analysis
This blog was written by NCTE member Shelby M. Boehm. Every time I stepped up to the free-throw line during …
Read Across America Day, March 2, Celebrates Dr. Seuss
Take part in the largest reading event in the United States on Friday, March 2! Gather books and readers for NEA’s …
Listening and Learning
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to spend time working alongside incredible NCTE members, listening to their …
Who Gets to Tell What History?
This month, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal passed a law criminalizing public discussion of Polish complicity in Nazi war crimes. Hard …
Love’s In Need of Love Today: Public Education in Troubled Times
This post was written by members Ted Kesler and Jane Bean-Folkes. The Fall 2017 blog post from NCTE’s Standing Committee …
Making Connections to AARI Books, Week 4
Each year during Black History Month, the National Council of the Teachers of English kicks off the African American Read-In. …
On Building Walls, On What They Cost
This post was written by member Erin O’Neill Armendarez. Amid threats of a government shutdown and gridlock over the DACA …
Book Recommendations for the African American Read-In
This February, schools, churches, libraries, bookstores, and community and professional organizations throughout the country have been hosting African American Read-Ins …
Uncomfortable Texts
There’s been a brouhaha in Duluth, Minnesota, where earlier this month, the superintendent declared that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn …