Teaching Literacy and Advocacy Through Hip Hop
I had the privilege of attending the standing-room only session, “Love, a Brave and Startling Truth: Healing Education Practices within …
Where Equality and Freedom are School Values
Last week’s piece about the Nova Project explored two benefits of democratic societies that also seem to benefit democratic schools …
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 …
Celebrating and Supporting African American Writers: The Legacy of the African American Read-In
The following post was written by Dr. Mila Thomas Fuller. “Celebrating and Supporting African American Writers” was the conversation during …
The Gospel According to Literacy
The following excerpt is from Rhea Estelle Lathan’s Freedom Writing: African American Civil Rights Literacy Activism, 1955–1967, the latest …
Digital Learning Day
Digital Learning Day 2016 is February 17. This event is coordinated by the Alliance for Excellent Education, an NCLE Stakeholder. …
Form Doesn’t Mean Formulaic: Finding Creative Approaches to ESSA Assessment Plan Design
I was always a free-verse guy back when I was serious about writing poetry. In creative writing classes, however, my …
Democracy in a Public High School
Most American high schools tell students democracy is the best governing system, but the Nova Project practices what it preaches. …
“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 …
The Territory of Literature
2016’s first issue of English Education offers the last article by the late George Hillocks Jr., “The Territory of Literature.” …