Focusing on the challenges the future will bring to English teachers, this journal issue contains 24 articles dealing with a variety of philosophical and pedagogical topics. Article titles and authors are (1) "The End of Us: 1986" (R. E. Stratton); (2) "2082: A College Speaking Course" (C. Yetman); (3) "Competing with the Mass Media" (M. Keiffer); (4) "A Practical Look at Relative Readability" (J. D. Shields); (5) "The Language of Accusation" (F. C. Lewis); (6) "The High Cost of Textbooks" (G. Hullman); (7) "Some Needed Changes" (R. Qualls); (8) "Burnout: Encounter and Escape" (R. Larsen); (9) "Teachers and Learning" (S. Monhollen); (10) "Why Is It That When People Ask Me What I Do for a Living, I Tell Them I Work for the Phone Company?" (E. P. Feldstein); (11) "Let's Help Johnny" (M. Valverde); (12) "Native American Students in the English Classroom" (D. G. Winchell); (13) "Basic Competency Skills in Prospective Teachers" (J. Streitmatter and S. Padgett); (14) "Removing the Bore Barrier" (D. Reed); (15) "What I've Learned from Teachers" (K. Duggan); (16) "Not by Scientific Technology Alone" (E. E. Seittelman); (17) "How Adolescents React to Change: Selected Examples from Literature" (O. Osa); (18) "Making Literature Relevant" (B. Killian); (19) "Reflections on Wordsworth and Byron" (W. H. Butler); (20) "Developing Critical Thinking through Writing" (L. A. Fritz); (21) "Perspectives on Conferences and the Writing Process" (K. W. Lampert, D. C. Schaberg, and M. L. Faigen); (22) "The Beginnings of Talent: Case in Point" (A. G. Brand); (23) "Rediscovering the Forgotten, the Familiar" (C. E. Cannady); and (24) "Another Journey through the Looking Glass: New Lenses for Old Problems" (J. S. Mayher). (FL)