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Education Issues: NCTE Insight

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Strategic Governance
In November 2003, the NCTE Executive Committee adopted a new model of policy-oriented style of governance for the Council. Members have studied the meaning and ramifications of the following issues for the organization as a whole. Find positions established and motions passed for a variety of topics.

Education Policy Collections
For the latest information about policy issues that are influencing literacy education, spend some time with the Education Policy Collections. You will find links to resource-rich websites and documents or position papers selected to help you understand the issue from various perspectives. You will also gain access to tools that will assist you in representing your views, and you will be referred to NCTE resources that provide teaching and research insights.

The Role of English Teachers in Educating English Language Learners
This position paper, prepared by the NCTE ELL Task Force, is designed to address the knowledge and skills mainstream teachers need to have in order to develop effective curricula that engage English language learners, develop their academic skills, and help them negotiate their identities as bilingual learners. More specifically, this paper addresses the language and literacy needs of these learners as they participate and learn in English-medium classes.

NCTE Principles of Adolescent Literacy Reform
This new policy research brief delineates the problems of adolescent literacy and outlines reforms NCTE has identified as necessary to address them.

Multi-Modal Literacies
A summary statement developed by the Multi-Modal Literacies Issue Management Team of the NCTE Executive Committee

The Teaching-Research Connection
A summary statement developed by the Research and Teaching Issue Management Team of the NCTE Executive Committee

Standards for Middle and High School Literacy Coaches
Collaborating with other associations to create Standards for Middle and High School Literacy Coaches is one way that NCTE is working to fulfill its mission to improve the teaching of English language arts. These standards for literacy coaches provide leadership expectations and address the literacy needs of several subject areas.

Talking about Teacher Quality
NCTE knows that teacher quality is a vital factor in advancing student learning, and that what constitutes quality English language arts instruction is tied to the context in which that teaching occurs. "A Policymakers Guide to Identifying and Supporting Highly Qualified Teachers of English Language Arts" from NCTE describes what constitutes "highly qualified."

NCTE Task Force on SAT and ACT Writing Tests Releases Report
The Impact of the SAT and ACT Timed Writing Tests

TYCA Addresses Issues for Two-Year College Faculty
"Guidelines for the Academic Preparation of Two-Year College English Faculty" and "Research and Scholarship in the Two-Year College"

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