The fears of some administrators that the students will go too far in their criticisms of the school usually prove groundless when the importance of developing a sense of responsibility has been stressed to the staff. (Author)

High school students wrote plot summaries of Macbeth" in either standard", King James, or slang English; the enthusiasm contributed to a greater appreciation of the play. (SP)

A teacher describes the informal curriculum" of mini-courses which are presented in addition to the regular curriculum. The author is hopeful that the skills and feelings that are developed will spill over into that other curriculum that has us all enmeshed." (Author/SP)

If we can change unconscious imitation of models into conscious decision-making of preferred speech, we will have made a sizeable advance in the whole matter of speech usage. (Author/MB)

Describes technique used to teach students to think; the teacher is the discussion catalyst rather than the purveyor or arbiter of information," and student response in group discussion increases. (Author/SP)

Describes a writing assignment in which students wrote letters from their seventeen-year-old selves addressed and directed to their selves of the year 2000. (Author/MB)

CEHAE is an acronym for concept, example, highlighting, activity, and evaluation. (MB)

Independent Study Programs must remain only a vehicle for implementation of change, not the sole purpose of change. (Author)

Author proposes a student-centered curriculum sequence and describes how such a curriculum was implemnted in her own classroom. (MB)

Author details why the psychological studies of Jean Piaget have specific relevance to the teaching of poetry, especially his thought matrix which consists of four transformational processes: identity, inversion, reciprocity and correlation. (Author)

Paper presented at the 1971 NCTE Convention; the author concludes that the profession of teaching owes accountability to the discipline of instruction." (Editor/Author)

A necessarily selective discussion of but a few of the matters involved"; extrinsic rewards, student-teacher relationship, accountability, teachers' union opposition, student reaction. Abstracts of 12 documents included. (Author/SP)

Describes an elective course, Mass Media and Propaganda, in which students investigate advertising claims. (MB)

Author discusses aspects of American culture that English teachers tend to ignore: American popular culture, immigrant (bilingual and bicultural) America, and American subcultures. (SP)

Author presents three examples of successful English units given as high school electives, notes the positive aspects of the elective program, and discusses accountability in terms of communication of objectives in English. (SP)