Relates the positive effects of using an historical document as a stimulus for class projects in the English classroom. (RL)

Proposes that offering students activities that exercise right-brain functions (nonverbal, nonrational, spatial, and intuitive) helps students become more fully developed human beings and better writers. (RL)

Budget cuts and textbook availability problems precipitate an English department chairperson's remembrance of the English curriculum as it was in the past. (RL)

Relates the interactions between an English teacher and a "problem student," showing how each learned to bend toward the other. (RL)

Describes a way of getting students to write poetry through writing collaborative poems. Relates the step-by-step procedure used by a class in writing a collaborative poem, and presents their poem. (RL)

Shows that reading aloud to students can improve students' reading and writing skills, as well as their attitudes toward reading. (RL)

Lists eight reasons why teachers gain from having students keep daily, in-class journals. (RL)

A humorous account of a student teacher's difficulties in interacting with students in a high school English class. (RL)

Ten teachers comment on the Ann Arbor (Michigan) court case concerning language bias in the schools. (RL)

A teacher notes the good and bad effects of the "back to basics" movement. (RL)

Discusses the policy, objectives, and possible teaching procedures that a local teachers' association developed in response to a directive to include writing in all subject areas and at all grade levels. (RL)

Points to trends in the publication of young adult novels; discusses a number of young adult novels from the 1970s that appear to have a good chance of becoming classics of the genre. (RL)

Provides an overview of different types of educational research in language arts, including the quasi-experiment, the controlled methodological experiment, the controlled descriptive experiment, the non-controlled description, and textual analysis. (RL)

Discusses reasons for keeping film study in the English curriculum. Offers resources for film study and lists some short films that can be used in class. (RL)

Counterpoint between two educators discussing the issue of competency based English instruction. (RL)