This article analyzes CEE's and NCTE's current positions related to political action and highlights the increasing need for public intellectual and political activism as an integral part of organizational policy. Using Lakoff's (2005) concept of cognitive/linguistic framing in political discourse along with Kuchapski's (2002) characterizations of…

Claims that there are many writing teachers, not just a few English/language arts teachers who are so designated, and that writing is already taught across the curriculum. Argues that teacher educators must reconsider their exclusive concern with methods and focus on teachers' theories of teaching and learning. (MS)

Reviews recent research on the nature of teachers' and students' talk in the classroom, specifically addressing the teachers' expectations of student talk and behavior. (SRT)

Discusses the concepts of play and imagination and how these shape personal development and the knowledge gained through experience with reading and writing. (SRT)

Four verbal snapshots, dated 1881, 1911, 1941, and 1971, suggest many of the changes that have occurred in the teaching of English during the past one hundred years. (RL)

Outlines desirable teacher characteristics outlined in the National Council of Teachers of English "Statement on the Preparation of Teachers of English and the Language Arts" and discusses research on the effect of teacher characteristics on students, focusing on a study of the effects of teachers' belief systems on classroom environments and on…

Reports evidence that some students have reading problems because of instructional emphasis on reading as "exact word reproduction," or of student tendencies to focus too keenly on word-attack skills. (RL)

Includes a summary of measurement in oral communication, the identification of two emerging focuses in measurement, and a description of a measurement strategy. (DD)