Assessment Outside the Box (or Bubble)
Nobody is satisfied with standardized tests as the best form of assessment, but it will take some innovative thinking to …
To Advocate or Not to Advocate
The following blog post was written by NCTE Policy Analyst Kristen Nielsen and reflects her own views. You can read …
Taking a Formative Assessment Stance
Much attention has been paid to the big high-stakes assessments that are raising blood pressure across the country—but there’s another …
A Community Literacy Project
Literacy education advocacy isn’t always about politics. Sometimes it’s about starting a community literacy project right in your own backyard. We …
Evaluation of Institutions
Just as standardized tests and teacher evaluations have become part of the toolkit used to determine the quality of elementary …
Literacy Assessment in College
There’s a lot of talk in the media about what assessment should and shouldn’t look like in the K-12 arena, …
Students’ Right to Their Own Language
In 1974 the Conference on College Composition and Communication first adopted a statement affirming students’ right to “their own patterns …
Principles for Online Writing Instruction
What defines good online writing instruction, and why does this definition matter? The Conference on College Composition and Communication has …
Time for Collaboration
It’s all well and good to talk about the importance of collaboration in schools and colleges, but unless the systemic …
Storytelling as Advocacy in Higher Education
The following piece was submitted by Jim Webber, an assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. He studies …