The costs and benefits of recent statewide and nationwide educational assessment programs are examined. The purpose of this paper is to present and substantiate some critical lessons and observations concerning: how the costs and benefits of large-scale assessments (LSAs) can be appraised, and the utility of this type of research to policymakers…

In November of 1978 the Canadian Education Association held its first national French-language seminar for teachers, principals, school board administrators, and representatives of departments/ministries of education. The theme of the seminar was "Supervision of Teaching: Should it be Viewed as a Relationship of Help or Control?" This…

This article focuses on contemporary research on first-generation college students bringing to light pedagogical interventions that can be used in the classroom to help engage and retain these students. The pedagogical interventions focus on reflective and personal writing in the classroom, creating safe spaces, and opening up opportunities for…

Although the Ann Arbor decision was based on a very narrow issue, the evidence used by the court in arriving at the decision is significant as a basis for future court actions in other circumstances. (HOD)

Traces the magnitude of the turn away from the liberal arts in American community colleges and suggests ways that faculty members in literature and the humanities might accommodate themselves to this change. (HOD)

Directs attention to six representative problems that confront university departments offering specialized graduate Programs for two-year college English teachers: implementation of national guidelines, staffing, accommodating university personnel regulations to the nontraditional program staff, attracting students, finding jobs for graduates, and…

Notes the advantages of using a structuralist approach in poetry instruction. Shows how a structuralist approach makes the reader conscious of operating within a network of signifying systems, and of the relation of those patterns to larger, "external" signifying systems. (RL)

Considers the impact of Northrop Frye's work on education. Shows how Frye explores systematically the continuity of the literary tradition and the structural principles used to discuss that tradition. (RL)

Shows how Northrop Frye's approach to teaching literature, literary analysis, and literary criticism is a combination of structure and relevance. (RL)

Notes developments in sociolinguistic theory with implications for the teaching of writing. (RL)

Discusses the dilemmas created for teachers by the growing number of bilingual/bicultural programs, especially with respect to literacy objectives and teacher preparation. (RL)

Although courts are urging linguistic sensitivity, linguistic geographers and sociolinguists are providing evidence on linguistic variety. (RL)

Records the dialog between Northrop Frye and a panel of teachers who quizzed him about the direct application of his theories to the teaching of English in elementary through university classrooms. (RL)