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NCTE Literacy Education Updates: Is NCLB ever going to be reauthorized?!
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NCTE Literacy Education Updates. Timely information related to English language arts teachers from NCTE. Friday, October 26, 2007. Is NCLB ever going to be reauthorized? Yesterday I received a call from an NCTE member in Colorado who asked,"Is NCLB going to be reauthorized soon? I understand that member's puzzlement. Each day in Washington, a pronouncement about a probable schedule for voting is heard in the Capitol, in the newspaper, or on the air. Posted by Barbara Cambridge. 12:59 PM, August 08, 2008.
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NCTE Literacy Education Updates: The Spellings' Report and Beyond, II
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NCTE Literacy Education Updates. Timely information related to English language arts teachers from NCTE. Monday, December 10, 2007. The Spellings' Report and Beyond, II. What’s in a Frame? Policy Reports and Higher Education circa 2007. But the next paragraph indicates that the educational system itself has fallen into declensionposes an obstacle to the achievement of the democracy because it is no longer cultivating appropriate intelligences. It further intimates that educators, experts charged with...
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NCTE Conference on English Leadership: 02/01/2007 - 03/01/2007
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NCTE Conference on English Leadership. Saturday, February 17, 2007. Critical Mass, Tipping Points, and Other Social Science Theories. While thinking long and hard about our three to five readers of this blog and why others don’t visit this site (putting aside the pedestrian nature of the writing) or why so few respond to any of the posts, mine or others’, I kept recalling two terms I came across a few years ago in. The New Humanities Reader. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference.
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NCTE Language Talk: Ann Cameron's Literature
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A blog by the Commission on Language. Thursday, February 21, 2008. A couple of days ago, Yetta Goodman circulated a note about Ann Cameron's response to the callous manner in which a passage from one of her books was used in a Illinois reading test:. Thought you would find this note (by Ann Cameron, author of many children's books, including "More Stories Julian Tells") of interest, posted on Amazon by Ann Cameron herself:. In a response to Yetta's note, Gloria Pipkin noted the following:. Furthermore, c...
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NCTE Inbox Blog: April 2010
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Helping Readers See Themselves in a Text. Every week during summer vacation, mom used to load us into the car and drive us to the library. While my sisters and brother were racing around with picture books and whatever toys they could get their hands on, I snuck off to a quieter corner of the library where the childrens biographies were shelved. When we finally loaded back into the car, everyone else had colorful books about cartoon people or lovable animals. My arms were fi...
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NCTE Inbox Blog: Developing Effective Writing Programs: Help for High Schools
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Monday, August 2, 2010. Developing Effective Writing Programs: Help for High Schools. Taking Initiative on Writing: A Guide for Instructional Leaders. By Anne Ruggles Gere, Hannah A. Dickinson, Melinda J. McBee Orzulak, and Stephanie Moody (copublished by NCTE. Offers practical strategies and extensive resources to help principals and teachers develop effective writing programs in their high schools. Read on for a taste of this book, taken from the opening chapter. You’ve been dealing with local an...
