Correspondence, agendas, minutes, directories, bibliographies, newsletters, press releases, financial reports, printed matter, including the periodicals Elementary English, English Journal, and College English, and other records, compiled by NCTE officers Sister M. Philippa Coogan, Richard Dandenau, Robert M. Gorrell, Robert Hogan, J. Nicholas Hook, Enid Olson, and others. Topics include internal affairs of the council and its subgroups; censorship; methods of teaching English; cooperation with other professional organizations; development of curricular guides for teachers of minority students; minimal linguistics requirements for teacher certification; children's literature; selection of culturally-balanced tests; literature by and about African Americans, Asian-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and American Indians; improving reading instruction in elementary schools; and various professional meetings, including NCTE Conference on Censorship (1966), conference on censorship sponsored by Freedom of Information Center (1969), ALA Conference on Censorship and Intellectual Freedom, White House Conference on Children and Youth (1960), Conference on Urban Dialect (1964), Conferences on the Status of English Teaching (1965-1968, 1975), and International Seminar on the Teaching and Learning of English (Dartmouth College, 1966). Organizations represented include American Library Association's Committee on Intellectual Freedom, Freedom to Read Foundation, Association of American Publishers, American Book Publishers Council, American Council on Education, Association of Departments of English, Center for Applied Linguistics, Modern Language Association, International Reading Association, National Association of Secondary School Principals, U.S. Office of Education, National Education Association, and Speech Association of America. Correspondents include Harold B. Allen, Robert Bennett, Dwight Burton, Richard Corbin, Muriel Crosby, W. Nelson Francis, Brice Harris, Robert Hogan, J. Nicholas Hook, Sumner Ives, William Jenkins, Eunice Kelly, Albert Kitzhaber, Helen Mackintosh, Albert Marckwardt, John Maxwell, Raven McDavid, Joseph Mersand, Rodney Morisset, Enid Olson, Nancy Prichard, Montana Hopkins Rickards, Robert Ruddell, Dora V. Smith, James Squire, and Arlin Turner.
