Discusses how "Sons and Lovers" was used to elicit values discussions using questions from "Teaching in the Content Areas" by Harold Herber. (CRH)

Because teachers are expected to take more and more blame for conditions that are not their fault, they are leaving the profession. (CRH)

Discovers the lack of attention given to plays for young adults in most published booklists, and follows with a list of recent works for junior and senior high readers. (CRH)

Calls for a better understanding of Mexican culture through the study of the poetry and of its writers through history. (CRH)

Considers reasons for the secondary English teacher to keep abreast of current literary theory and offers suggested readings. (CRH)

Describes how a last issue of the school newspaper carrying senior class wills offended some faculty members and how the issue of censorship was raised and dealt with. (CRH)

Examines how to increase student awareness of the range and depth of nonverbal communication and help them respond more intelligently to the nonverbal cues sent by others and understand the messages they transmit nonverbally. (CRH)

Describes how the school intercom system was used to announce a new book of the day in persuasive terms during December, Reading Month, in Virginia. Includes sample booktalks. (CRH)

Four items of software are described and reviewed in this first of a projected series of articles. (CRH)

Presents four teachers' reasons for working in public or private schools: (1) the warmth and concern among teachers, parents, and administrators at a private school; (2) the needs of low ability students in a public high school; (3) the greater openness at public schools; and (4) the natural beauty surrounding a public farm school in Pennsylvania.…

Suggests that English teachers should be familiar not only with the recommendations by the Commission on Excellence in Education, but also with Ernest Boyer's "High School," and John Goodlad's, "A Place Called School." (MM)

Argues that national policy has imposed on American public education four different standards of literacy, each one more demanding than the one preceding it--signature, recitation, comprehension, and application. Suggests, also, that each standard, which had its root cause in the nation's economy and social structure, was initially applied only to…

Offers classroom teachers from kindergarten through grade 12 seven suggestions on writing publishable manuscripts: (1) study journals' editorial policies, (2) give credit for borrowed material, (3) learn of publication plans for forthcoming issues, (4) avoid sexist language, (5) keep the intended audience in mind, (6) proofread and revise, and (7)…

Uses personal reminiscences to show how the past does not die but becomes part of an understandable pattern in life. Suggests that keeping a journal increases that understanding. (MM)

Presents a high school English teacher's experience taking maternity leave and deciding to return to teaching on a part-time basis. (MM)