NCTE Elementary Section

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After a long hiatus of 5 years, the Elementary Section Steering Committee (ESSC) is reviving our section blog. We envision this as a space...

One of the requirements of No Child Left Behind is that schools make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). The US Department of Education define...

In his book, One market under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy , Thomas Frank documents the quasi...

The (un)comic strip Mallard Fillmore is continuing its attack on teachers for a second straight week. Yesterday the National Public Radio s...

The Boston Globe carries a cartoon strip called “ Mallard Fillmore ” which presents itself as a conservative alternative to Doonesbury. Exc...

Politics is dominating the news as the presidential election nears. In the context of the upcoming elections, being political means keeping ...

As I was paging through the Boston Globe one morning last week my eyes were drawn to a headline that startled me: “Racial disparity found i...

I just returned from six weeks in Toronto where I taught a course on inclusive educatin at the University of Toronto/OISE. Teaching at OISE ...

In her book, What we call smart: A new narrative for intelligence and learning , Lynda Miller discusses four principles that I believe are f...

I’ve been thinking a lot about inclusion lately. One reason is that I’m getting ready to teach a course on inclusion at the Ontario Institut...

The other day I stumbled upon an excellent article by David Pearson in the Journal of Literacy Education entitled, “An endangered species ac...

I’ve read a couple of seemingly disparate stories recently that are linked by a common theme. The first was a New York Times article that de...

I’ve just finished reading an excellent doctoral dissertation by Steven Van Zoost. Van Zoost is a secondary teacher in Nova Scotia and he is...

Today’s New York Times and Washington Post both feature articles summarizing a recent report commissioned by the American Association of U...