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Education Advocate wins 2003 NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language
I can't comment on this one except to say I am very honored and pleased.
NCTE News Release
Contact: Lyndsey Tate
December 4, 2003
Education Advocate wins 2003 NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language
Susan Ohanian, creator of www.susanohanian.org, has won the 2003 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Orwell Award. The award recognizes writers who have made outstanding contributions to the critical analysis of public discourse and is given by the NCTE Committee on Public Doublespeak.
In the award speech, Rudolph Sharpe, speaking of behalf of the NCTE Committee on Public Doublespeak, said, “The selection of the 2003 recipient acknowledges the influence of electronic media on public perception. For the first time, a Web site has been selected—for its clarity, honesty, and eloquence. As one nominator noted, Susan Ohanian's Web site ‘presumes a natural love of the education of children, offers a place for a free exchange of thought on their behalf, but has little sympathy for those who view children as things, as commodities. Her Web site's dedication to social and educational justice filled with questions, information, and resources, conflict, and love, exemplify…what should be the very best in the heart of public thinking.’”
“Susan is one of the few heroes we possess in this endless battle to provide the American public with the truth about the American system of public education,” wrote Evans Clinchy, Ph.D., senior consultant at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, in a nomination letter to NCTE.
Ohanian is a teacher and free-lance writer whose articles have appeared in various periodicals, including the Atlantic, Washington Monthly, Phi Delta Kappan, and Education Week. She is also author of One Size Fits Few: The Folly of Educational Standards (Heinemann, 1999) and Caught in the Middle: Nonstandard Kids and a Killing Curriculum (Heinemann, 2001), among others.
The NCTE Committee on Public Doublespeak has been giving its Orwell Award annually since 1975. Named in honor of author George Orwell, who championed clarity in public language, the award recognizes an author, editor, or producer of published work or nonprint media presentation that effectively treats the subject of public doublespeak and makes outstanding contributions to the critical analysis of public language.
The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), with 60,000 individual and institutional members worldwide, is dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education.
— NCTE
News Release
2003-12-04
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