Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born January 15, 1929. Following in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps, he was ordained …
La Lucha Es M谩s F谩cil en Familia (The Struggle Is Easier among Family): Academics of Color Finding and Founding Supportive Community Spaces
This post is written by member Laura Gonzales.聽 It鈥檚 no secret that academia can be a marginalizing and hostile space …
Is Literacy a Fundamental Right?
On September 13, 2016, a group of Detroit parents filed a class action lawsuit in federal court against Michigan Governor …
Accent-u-rating
This is a guest post by Ellen Shubich. Recently, a leak occurred in an apartment we own in Florida and …
Saving Children from 鈥淒angerous Freedoms鈥�
鈥淚f there is a basic, fundamental engine that makes this peculiar experiment, constitutional democracy – I’m quoting Jefferson – work, …
Students’ Voices Need to Be Heard
This post is written by Joanne Yatvin, NCTE’s P12 policy analyst for Oregon.聽 A few days ago, I read an …
Five Reasons Teachers Love Student Choice
In Wentzville, Missouri, some high school teachers changed how they taught reading, and after seeing the results, they report they …
New Year, New Resources
ReadWriteThink.org keeps getting bigger and better, and as new theory and technology arise in the world of literacy education, we …
What Happened in Your State This December?
This past month, ten policy analysts published reports about聽what occurred in California, Connecticut, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, …
The Morning After
This is a guest post written by Kathryn McCalla.聽 Getting only about two hours of sleep allows a person more …