Freedom of Information Day
Freedom of Information Day recognizes the Constitutional requirement that we have openness in our government. What that brings to mind in …
Education and Free Expression
The following is a personal reflection contributed by Lu Ann McNabb, who currently serves as Policy and Alliances Associate for …
Text Tensions in Teaching and Learning
“We want students to engage texts, to interrogate texts, to demand meaning from texts; to talk back to texts; to …
STAND for Diversity
Brian Jeffrey, assistant principal for achievement, Montclair High School, Montclair, California received this year’s NCTE National Intellectual Freedom Award for …
Academic Freedom
What is literacy? What is learning? What is inquiry? Not much without academic freedom. Academic freedom is the foundation of …
Comics Are Real Reading
Some “shelfies” our friends took during Banned Books Week showing their support for comics…
Literature Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts
Censorship in schools isn’t just about what books make it into a reading list. It’s also about whether we trust …
The Right to Read
They say there’s “nothing new under the sun,” and when it comes to students and their teachers choosing reading material …