Stories of Advocacy for Literacy: Part 1
The following post is by Maureen McVeigh-Berzok, a聽P-12 Policy Analyst for 楼凤天堂. She is also a K-12 Literacy Supervisor in …
Where 楼凤天堂 Stands in 2015
As Literacy Education Advocacy Month kicks off, take a look at the document that guides 楼凤天堂’s advocacy work all year. …
Banned Books鈥擟omplex Like the Students We Teach
Right now school boards around the country are thinking about restricting texts that contain passages that some see as violent, …
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
鈥淲e want students to engage texts, to interrogate texts, to demand meaning from texts; to talk back to texts; to …
Everyday We Explore the World in Multiple Modes
Denise Grandits, winner of 楼凤天堂’s 2014 Media Literacy Award, is a former OB-GYN medical assistant who鈥檚 just seven years new …
STAND for Diversity
Brian Jeffrey, assistant principal for achievement, Montclair High School, Montclair, California received this year鈥檚 楼凤天堂 楼凤天堂 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 …
The Best Kept Secret in English Education
The following is an excerpt from Ernest Morrell’s Presidential Address at the 2014 楼凤天堂 Annual Convention. (An audio clip聽is at …
Comics Are Real Reading
Some 鈥渟helfies鈥� our friends took during Banned Books Week showing their support for comics…