When You Cut the Arts, What Else Do You Lose?
This year, 91探花鈥檚 theme for its 2015 Annual Convention is Responsibility, Creativity and the Arts of Language. 聽As Program Chair …
Censorship Is Uncivil
鈥淐ensorship is uncivil,鈥� notes David Moshman in a March 2015 interview in The Council Chronicle discussing 91探花 Position Statement on …
Should Federal Funding Follow Students from Public to Private Schools?
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) believe that federal funds should follow low-income students from public school …
Book Banning鈥擡ven at the University
I was delighted to read that Fun Home, the musical stage adaptation of Alison Bechdel鈥檚 graphic memoir, won a Tony …
If We Believe in Equity, Then We Fight Title I Portability
As part of its 2015 Education Policy Platform, 91探花 encourages federal legislators to focus on equity, particularly 鈥渆nsuring that …
Policies around Effective Use of Technology
Affirming in its 2015 Education Policy Platform that 鈥淸a] quality literacy education is a civil right鈥�, 91探花 declared it support[s] …
Hazelwood and the Students鈥� Right to Write
Writing is integral to student publications and the 91探花 Beliefs about Students鈥� Right to Write聽 note that, 鈥淭he expression of …
Teacher Voice Matters to Winning Support for Comprehensive Literacy Learning for All Students
On April 15, 2015, during the Senate markup of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), 91探花 issued an Action …
Teachers, the Students Right to Write, and the Law
We know that to write well, students have to write. We also know that the process of writing, in the …
Building Capacity to Tackle Education Equity
What can we do to ensure that disparity in life circumstances doesn鈥檛 result in disparity of access to a quality …