Literacy is More than Just Reading and Writing
From the NCTE Standing Committee on Global Citizenship This post was written by NCTE member Amber Peterson, a member of …
Literacy is Everyone’s Job
The challenges of providing all students with equal access to high-quality literacy learning are vast, and one thing is certain—we …
Literacy in a Digital World: International Literacy Day 2017
Each year, International Literacy Day is celebrated across the world on September 8th. The theme for this year is “Literacy …
Literacy Assessment Principles and Practices: Avenues for Helping Literacy Learners
This blog was written by NCTE members Scott Filkins, Becky McCraw, and Kathleen Blake Yancey, members of NCTE’s Standing Committee …
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, …
Literacy Assessment as Advocacy: Learning to Be Literate: More than a Single Story, Part II
This post was written by NCTE member Bobbie Kabuto, the chair of the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment. So …
Literacy Assessment as Advocacy: Learning to Be Literate: More than a Single Story, Part I
This post was written by NCTE member Bobbie Kabuto, the chair of the NCTE Standing Committee on Literacy Assessment. So …
Literacy and the Election
November 8 is Election Day in the United States. After all of the debates, commercials, advertisements and phone calls, voting in …
Literacy and Culture: Are We Rising?
The words in this blog belong to NCTE member Jeff Wilhelm. I spent today in Berlin and then took the …
Literacy Advocates Heartened by LEARN Act’s Inclusion in ESSA
On December 10, 2015, President Barack Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The language from the Literacy Education …