Where NCTE Stands

Teacher Collaboration 

• Time for Teacher Collaboration -- April 12, 2013
• Remodeling Literacy Learning: Making Room for What Works -- report from the National Center for Literacy Education, April 2013
• Consensus on Essential Characteristics of Effective Professional Learning -- by Barbara Cambridge, NCTE; Joellen Killion, Learning Forward; and Efrain Mercado and Sherida Britt, ASCD, on behalf of thirteen organizations that support professional learning, November 14, 2012
• Maximizing Professional Learning to Support Student Learning -- written by thirteen organizations that support professional learning, October 2012
• Principles of Learning -- NCTE and the other Members of the Connected Learning Coalition, May 2010

Assessment

• Machine Scoring of Student Writing -- April 12, 2013
• NCTE Position Statement on Machine Scoring -- April 15, 2013

Highly Qualified Teachers

• Letter to President Barack Obama Urging Congress to End Section 163 of Continuing Resolution (H.R. 3082), which Negatively Changed the Definition of a "Highly Qualified Teacher" under the No Child Left Behind Act -- NCTE and the other Members of the Coalition for Teaching Quality, August 29, 2012

Striving Readers

• Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program -- April 12, 2013
• The New and Very Different Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program -- Barbara Cambridge, Director, NCTE Washington, DC, Office, February 27, 2012

Elementary and Secondary Education Act

• The Literacy Education for All, Results for the Nation (LEARN) Act -- April 12, 2013
• Definitions of Literacy Terms in ESEA -- Barbara Cambridge, Director, NCTE Washington, DC, Office, February 29,
• Literacy and the Reauthorization of ESEA -- Barbara Cambridge, Director, NCTE Washington, DC, Office, February 24, 2012

NCTE Executive Committee Actions, President's Comments

• NCTE President Keith Gilyard Gives His Final Update before the Annual Convention -- NCTE President Keith Gilyard, November 12, 2012

• NCTE President Keith Gilyard Talks about Work of the Executive Committee and the National Center for Literacy Education -- NCTE President Keith Gilyard, August 24, 2012

• NCTE President Talks about Advocacy, Teacher Evaluation, High-Stakes Testing, and Membership -- NCTE President Keith Gilyard, April 30, 2012

• Update on NCTE's Key Decisions on Policy Issues -- NCTE President Keith Gilyard, February 28, 2012