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contents September 2011 • Vol. 21, No. 1 iN This issUE 6 10 Keeping Students at the Center of the Common Core Classroom 15 Literacies of Disciplines An NCTE Policy Research Brief Available for free download from the NCTE Store at https://secure.ncte.org/store Recommendations for Using the CCSS Productively Reading the Past, Writing the Future — A Film One Hundred Years in the Making the Centennial film is just one way NCte members are participating in celebrating our history—learn more on the Centennial webpage at www.ncte.org/centennial. Images on the cover are still frames from the film reading the past, Writing the Future , co-produced by John Golden and Laura Lull. FOR YOUR CALENDAR 25 30 Dates & Sites To Do 18 22 24 Writing and Working for Change Get a sneak peek at special convention events from mem-bers of the Writing and Working for Change Committee. Defending the Right to Read COMMENTARY 28 In the 21st century, censorship in the english classroom rears its head in some familiar and some unexpected ways. President's Commentary Public and School Libraries in Decline: When We Need Them A Conversation with US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan What I like most about being a children’s/young adult author is talking to kids about how to empower their own voices, talking to them about their own stories, and encouraging them to consider themselves writers too. —Author Cynthia Leitich Smith, in her audio testimony for the National Day on Writing at http://www.ncte.org/dayonwriting/testimonials Cynthia Leitich Smith Contribute your writing to the National Gallery of Writing at www.galleryofwriting.org! the C ouncil c hronicle The National Council of Teachers of English Managing Editor Felice A. Kaufmann Contributing Editors Lori Bianchini, Linda Walters dEsignEr Jody A. Boles 2010–2011 NCTE Executive Committee Members President: Yvonne Siu-Runyan; President-Elect: Keith Gilyard; Vice President: Sandy Hayes; Past President: Carol Jago; Representative-at-Large: Carmen Tisdale; Representative-at-Large: Terry Bigelow; Representative-at-Large: Jeanette Toomer; Chair, Elementary Section: Frank Chiki; Assistant Chair, Elementary Section: Jeff Williams; Chair, Middle Level Section: Jeffrey Golub; Chair, Secondary Section: Kay Parks Haas; Associate Chair, Secondary Section: Karen Conn Mitcham; Chair, College Section: Mike Palmquist; Chair, TYCA: Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt; Chair, CCCC: Gwendolyn Pough; Associate Chair, CCCC: Malea Powell; Chair, CEE: Marshall George; Chair, CEL: Patrick Monahan; President, WLU: Rita Moore; Executive Director: Kent Williamson; NCTE West Director: Dale Allender; Washington, DC, Office Director: Barbara Cambridge
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