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…

Compares educational problems in England with those in America, highlighting the recent "Black Paper" furor in England. (Author)

Describes how curriculum specialists and supervisors can use two generic observation categories of effective teaching--development and management of lessons and presentation of subject matter--to identify quality teaching of writing across grade levels. (SRT)

Traces the effects of advancing technologies on civilization and education, arguing that radical changes are underway, such as reliance on tele-education and distance learning, that will have a profound effect on teachers and the United States educational system. (HOD)

Relates how a student's composing process will be shaped and influenced by the microcomputer and word processing. (HOD)

Lists journal articles and other materials that present "cautionary" viewpoints related to the role of computers in education. (HOD)

Advocates a managerial mode for English supervisors that values informal, decentralized, creative, and intuitive ways of getting understanding and change. (HOD)

Argues that teachers who are no longer learners must, by whatever means, be led to a point where they recognize that what they are doing in the classroom is not in the best interest of their students or themselves. (HOD)

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)

Examines "trends" in English teaching in four categories: interests, trends, movements, and repertoire. (HOD)

Crucial to the healthy existence of those who profess English education is the potential enrichment offered by electronic media. (HOD)

Provides a history of the National Council of Teachers of English's guidelines which are put forth every 10 years. States that before 1986 the guidelines served mainly the function of informing graduate and undergraduate programs of principles to build or modify programs in English education. Questions who shall control teacher education in the…

Suggests reasons why a gap exists between what is taught in methods class and what is found in many English classrooms, including the methods instructor's credibility, how methods classes themselves are conducted, and accountability of process-based teaching. Suggests ways the gap might be bridged. (SR)

Asks whether virtues such as liberalism, autonomy, and individual development represent the best basis to resist the centralizing attempts of Margaret Thatcher's administration. Argues that it is characteristic of liberalism to fail to recognize either that it is historically located, or that it is itself an ideology. (RS)

Discusses disciplinary actions against the principal of a small, suburban elementary school in Westchester County, New York, from several vantage points: the legal story, the whole-language story, the leadership story, and the school in the community story. Discusses the struggle of public schools both to constitute and to relate to the policies…