This publication contains journal essays and book chapters from publications of the National Council of Teachers of English. The publication's first section, "Diverse Students, Diverse Teachers," contains the following articles: (1) "Dispositions toward Language: Teacher Constructs of Knowledge and the Ann Arbor Black English Case" (Arnetha Ball and Ted Lardner); (2) "Safe Houses in the Contact Zone: Coping Strategies of African-American Students in the Academy" (A. Suresh Canagarajah); (3) "A Good Gang: Thinking Small with Preservice Teachers in a Chicago Barrio" (Todd DeStigter); and (4) "On (Almost) Passing" (Brenda Jo Brueggemann). Articles in the second section, "Ethics in Teaching, Research, and Publishing," are: (5) "Ethical Issues Raised by Students' Personal Writing" (Dan Morgan); (6) "Simple Gifts: Ethical Issues in the Conduct of Person-Based Composition Research" (Paul V. Anderson); (7) "The Ethics of Teaching Literature" (Wayne C. Booth); and (8) "Going Public" (Peter Mortensen). Articles in the third section, "Service Learning and Social Change," are: (9) "Service Learning and English Studies: Rethinking 'Public' Service" (Aaron Schutz and Anne Ruggles Gere); (10) "Service Learning and First-Year Composition" (Brock Haussamen); (11) "The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change" (Ellen Cushman); and (12) "'A Real Vexation': Student Writing in Mount Holyoke's Culture of Service, 1837-1865" (JoAnn Campbell). (NKA)