English teachers who are encouraging the publication of back-to-basics texts must learn to make more enlightened and coherent choices that reflect new insights into language. (DD)

The back-to-basics movement has had a major impact on English/language arts textbook publishers. (DD)

The methods for teaching literacy must employ joy, inquiry, openness, and appreciation of difference or the literacy achieved will be rote, mechanical and subservient to rules and order. (DD)

A list of 25 English language arts journals, including the names of the sponsoring organizations, the names and addresses of the editors, and brief descriptions of the contents and editorial policies of the journals. (DD)

A review of research in composition and a discussion of its implications for high school teachers. (DD)

An annotated list of 33 books chosen by sixteen- to nineteen-year-olds from a list of 300 newly published books. (DD)

Discusses the relationship of computer science to English teaching and encourages teachers to make use of computers. (DD)

Includes resources on writing, reading, English/language arts, mass media, and communication skills. (DD)

Describes Albert Camus's writings regarding semantic abuses in public rhetoric. (DD)

Quotes from the letters of Joseph Crosby regarding the certification of teachers in English grammar, orthography, arithmetic, and geography in 1877, and reproduces the four certification examinations Crosby developed. (DD)

Educational practices of the back-to-basics movement are ineffective at producing good readers and writers, whether "goodness" be judged by conventionality, congruity, or practicability. (DD)

Suggests ways parents can help high school students to improve their language skills by encouraging students to read and discouraging them from watching too much television. (DD)

Suggests ways to improve students' visual literacy through the study of paintings and photographs. (DD)

Cites Bruno Bettelheim and Patrick Merla in defending the theory that the simple plots found in fantasy reinforce good and reaffirm our beliefs in humanity's perfectability. (DD)

Techniques for improving students' understanding of literary devices in junior novels. (DD)