NCTE Statement on the Doublespeak Award and Anti-Censorship Efforts
NCTE remains deeply committed to supporting excellent public language and is also in an important period of reflecting and considering …
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 …
Use of ReadWriteThink Tools and Apps in 2016
As 2016 winds down, I took the opportunity to dig into the analytics to see what users on ReadWriteThink.org used …
Making the Grade
This post is written by guest writer Courtney Waugh. Recently, a student came to me asking what she could do …
Governors Play a Key Role in Education
For over a decade, I have received press releases from my Governor by email. The press releases cover a wide …
August 9 is Book Lovers Day!
It seems as though there is a holiday or day of remembrance for almost everything, and I find “Book Lovers …
Who Gets to Decide?
This week I bumped into two different stories on the radio. Each was discussing the questions “Who gets to decide?” …
Latest on the First Amendment on Campus
Free speech on college campuses is in the news again—from complaints from “right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro [who] is pushing back …
What Going Back to the Classroom Taught Me about Global Citizenship
By: Jillian M. Kneeland, member, NCTE’s Committee on Global Citizenship “Global citizenship goes way deeper than that. It goes into …
When Words Matter: Drafting the 2016 Educational Policy Platform
Today, members of NCTE’s Policy and Advocacy Subcommittee of the Executive Committee (composed of elected leadership, NCTE’s Executive Director, and …