Describes programs sponsored by and materials available from the National Humanities Faculty, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts. (DD)

Describes some of the linguistic misinformation presented in a recent magazine article on the teaching of writing. (DD)

Urges that less emphasis be placed on speed and neatness in the teaching of writing. (DD)

The cause of students' inability to write is lack of practice; one solution is to hire a writing consultant for each school. (DD)

Students should write more and be encouraged more in their writing. (DD)

Urges that students be offered a wider range of writing modes and audiences and describes a program involving ungraded written exchanges among students. (DD)

Teachers should draw from the resources of their economic, educational, governmental, and religious communities in teaching composition. (DD)

Describes an "open English," independent study course for non-academic students. (DD)

Reviews the literature in the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) on the responses of prominent English educators to the back-to-basics movement. (Author) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Results (Interpretation).

Contends that Latinism was rejected by nineteenth-century American traditional grammarians. (DD)

Examines the amount of grammar terminology used or required for eleven leading standardized tests. (DD)

A guide to the teaching of grammar as a process of inquiry into the ways meaning is conveyed. (DD)