National Council of Teachers of English Archives at the University of Illinois

Teaching booth at the 1959 NCTE Convention in Denver, circa 1959
Teaching booth at the 1959 NCTE Convention in Denver, circa 1959

The National Council of Teachers of English is devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. This mission statement was adopted in 1990:

 

"The Council promotes the development of literacy, the use of language to construct personal and public worlds and to achieve full participation in society, through the learning and teaching of English and the related arts and sciences of language."

 


 

 

NCTE Centennial