NEHS’s Intellectual Freedom Challenge (IFC) invites sophomore or junior NEHS members to write argumentative essays based on potentially controversial...
Tag - Intellectual Freedom
Educators across the country are being bombarded with challenges to book selections and curricular decisions; as English teachers, we are the prime targets for...
Nationwide, more than ever extreme efforts have been made to employ book bans in libraries and schools. Banned Books Week, an event held annually to celebrate...
The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has recently updated a position statement concerning censoring practices prevalent in many school districts...
As announced in the last newsletter, the Intellectual Freedom Challenge (IFC) is now open to sophomore and junior members of NEHS interested in writing an...
The NEHS students who submitted the best argumentative essays for the Intellectual Freedom Challenge have been announced. Five NEHS chapters had...
As Banned Book Week, sponsored by the American Library Association, is celebrated in the coming week and beyond, there looms an urgency in society as teachers...