Introduction Across the United States, a renewed wave of book challenges and bans has increasingly targeted young adult (YA) literature, particularly texts that explore race, gender identity, sexuality, mental health, and civic resistance. While debates over censorship in education are not new, the current scale, coordination, and politicization of these challenges have created urgent consequences … Continue reading The Right to Read: Crafting and Publishing Rationales for Banned Books by Remington M. Foust
Teaching Narrative Through the Fine Arts: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Student Comprehension by Susan Decker
Teaching abstract English Language Arts (ELA) concepts using parallels from the fine arts increases student learning due to both biological and psychological responses to the arts. This deliberate duet between the fine arts (specifically visual art, music, dance/theater, and film) and ELA also has great academic benefits, as the beauty of ELA thus becomes more … Continue reading Teaching Narrative Through the Fine Arts: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Student Comprehension by Susan Decker
Cover Me Up: Quilts and their Substitutes in Southern Fiction by Kay Walter and Arley-Beth Cravey
The tradition of American Patchwork Quilting is nowhere more vital than in the Mississippi Delta. The Gee’s Bend quilters, a group of rural Alabama African American women descended from enslaved people who create abstract quilts using improvisational designs, made their Delta quilting world-famous. A quilt can be many things, but at base it is a … Continue reading Cover Me Up: Quilts and their Substitutes in Southern Fiction by Kay Walter and Arley-Beth Cravey
The Case of the Missing Counterargument by Gail M. Netland Froyd
Argumentative writing is a common component of both secondary and postsecondary composition instruction; in the contemporary onslaught of constant information and misinformation from social media and AI, information literacy and the ability to comprehend, construct, and deconstruct arguments is more crucial than ever. Critical thinking that leads to the ability to anticipate needs and concerns … Continue reading The Case of the Missing Counterargument by Gail M. Netland Froyd
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