Exhorts teachers to make an effort to include adolescent literature into their sagging literature programs and recommends the "ALAN (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents) Review." (CRH)

Discusses how fantasy books can be used in the classroom to provide exercises for the imagination, to allow students to see themselves more clearly, to allow them to escape, and to generate hope. (CRH)

Describes works that develop skills to help students face the inevitability of death, make sophisticated decisions about the issues of death and dying, and appreciate life while they are living it. (CRH)

Discusses the appeal of adolescent novels and the debate over whether to include them in the curriculum. (CRH)

Lists student oriented adolescent novels that fall under the categories Misfits, Conformity, Families in Conflict, Mystery, and Addictions. (CRH)

Describes novels and poetry anthologies that treat the family with some sympathy: there are stories of warm families, realistic stories of normal tensions, and stories that deal fairly with children estranged from their parents. (CRH)

Four teachers suggest a number of research topics they believe deserve investigation, including grammar instruction and teacher effectiveness. (RBW)

Assesses a teacher's sabbatical leave tour of selected private and public schools in New England and the Middle Atlantic states to study English curricula and teaching techniques and to discover classroom teachers' and administrators' concerns. (RBW)

Reviews "American Indian Leaders: Studies in Diversity," edited by R. David Edmunds, a collection of 12 biographies that examine Native American leaders' responses to nonnative people and their policies during various stages of American history. (RBW)

Deals with teaching a Walt Whitman unit in a high school American literature course. Discusses ways of making the poet's work relevant to the current generation of students. (RBW)

Deals with the complexity and moral ambiguity of the Vietnam War as reflected in American literature of that period, and with the use of that literature to help students undertand the conflict. Suggests three books: Philip Caputo's "A Rumor of War," James Webb's "Field of Fire," and Michael Herr's "Dispatches" as being particularly useful in this…

Calls for sensitive treatment of learning disabled teenagers by teachers. Discusses approaches that have proven effective in working with this population of students. (RBW)

Describes a peer tutoring remedial reading program established at the high school level. Reports marked improvement in reading for both students and tutors. (RBW)

Questions whether the emphasis placed on the teaching of grammar in the American school curriculum will yield more than modest benefits. Suggests that literacy cannot be attained primarily through analyzing sentences and memorizing rules. (RBW)

Describes the unorthodox methods used by a high school English teacher to get the meaning of such literary terms as "classicism,""romanticism,""realism," and "naturalism" across to her students. (RBW)