Points out the importance of speech activities in the English curriculum. (JL)

Suggests practical measures for evaluating computer hardware. (JL)

Explains how student-constructed "aliens" were used to generate writing and to encourage the development of writing skills. (JL)

Calls for the continued inclusion of adolescent literature in the English curriculum. (JL)

Reports the results of a study that revealed that the instructional activities that precede writing are more important to student improvement than longer comments on the writing itself. (JL)

Compares a teacher's proposed improvements in the English curriculum written in 1912 with current ideas. (JL)

Presents the pros and cons of including teen romances in the English curriculum. (JL)

Summarizes court rulings on First Amendment protection for student newspapers and relates some of the issues raised by these decisions. (JL)

Presents answers to questions posed to Ernest Hemingway's son by students in a telephone interview. (JL)

Describes how a teacher challenged her students' smug conviction that poetry is a waste of time. (JL)

Explores possible reasons why women enter the teaching profession, particularly the teaching of English, and confronts common stereotypes of female English teachers. (JL)

Recounts how personal experience led to the realization that writing should be the physical and metaphysical center of what goes on in the English classroom. (JL)

Recommends assertiveness training for the English teacher. Argues that such training can lead to improved confidence and better relationships with students. (JL)

Acknowledges the anxiety of writing and of teaching writing. (JL)

Explains how insights on the nature of consciousness can be applied to the teaching of English. (JL)