Honoring Malala for Women’s Heritage Month
This post was written by NCTE member Anji Williams. We kicked off Women’s Heritage Month in March by honoring …
Giving Back to Kids and the Community: Jamal Cooks Brings Passion, Purpose, and Pop Culture
NCTE is home to myriad remarkable teachers — here we take a moment to appreciate just one of them: award-winning …
Racism Drove Arizona’s Ban of Tucson Mexican-American Studies Program
Last week, U.S. District Judge A. Wallace Tashima ruled that the state of Arizona violated students’ 1st and 14th Amendment …
Twitter as an Advocacy Tool
The following post was written by Lu Ann McNabb for the new Friday Advocacy feature of this blog. According to …
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 …
Project 2025 Poses a Danger to Inclusive English Language Arts and Affirming Schools
This post was written by NCTE member Cody Miller. The freedom to read, access to books, and teacher’s curricular …
Disciplinary Teacher Organizations Urge Federal Coordination of Public Education
Organizations representing teachers of the core K–12 subject areas came together on March 24 to call for continued federal coordination …
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 …
Writing Grows Out of Many Purposes
Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing, written by a committee of the NCTE Executive Committee, pinpoints 10 key issues …
#NCTEChat Sunday, November 16 8pm ET
Please join us this Sunday November 16 at 8 pm ET / 7 pm CT for #NCTEChat where we’ll be …