Real Teaching in a Time of Fake News
This post is written by NCTE historian Jonna Perillo. You may have noticed the attention that fake news is receiving …
Can Poetry Help Us To Shape a More Just World?
This is the fourth installment of the NCTE Citizenship Campaign, a blog series sponsored by the NCTE Standing Committee on …
Dispelling the Myth That Intelligence = Instant and Easy
This is a guest post by Robert Ward. A startling number of students believe that if you are smart, correct …
Thoughts on Thinking
This is a guest post written by Ellen Shubich. I have been thinking about thinking. It began when the Buckingham tutor …
Educating “The Whole Child”: Why Journalism Matters
This is #9 in a bi-montly series by NCTE member Alana Rome. This week, I am participating in a Leadership …
What’s a Book For? Some Things to Consider when Planning for Conversations
This post is written by NCTE member, Richard Meyer, who will be participating in a symposium at the Whole Language …
Questions as Open-Ended Explorations
This blog post is written by NCTE members Lisa Diomande and Nargiza Matyakubova. “Education is not the filling of a …
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 …
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. …
Student-led Inquiry
Learners with agency can “intentionally make things happen by [their] actions,” and “agency enables people to play a part in …