Urges editors to evaluate the educational concepts underlying commercial educational materials and to determine whether the concepts are in accord with the findings of educational research. (DD)

Discusses the restrictions imposed on English teachers by the new copyright law and suggests possible alternatives to practices which violate the new law. (DD)

Urges English educators to develop career-related methods courses and illustrates how career education has been incorporated successfully in the elementary and secondary school English curriculum. (DD)

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)

Discusses the activities and accomplishments of the Canadian Council of Teachers of English (CCTE), especially with regard to its Teacher Education Commission's "Statement on the Preparation of Teachers of English and the Language Arts." (MS)

Discusses what objectives should be pursued in the teaching of English and the need for strong theory to underlie teaching practices. (SRT)

Describes the Colorado Writing Assessment Program, a testing program that provides two kinds of feedback to teachers and students: (1) a holistic score that measures the general quality of writing and (2) a set of scores on analytic scales that reflect students' achievement in four areas. Concludes that the program works. (FL)

Discusses the drawbacks of computer assisted instruction in the composition classroom. (FL)

Reviews the use of the ERIC index term "Reader Text Relationship" with a view to deriving a tentative definition of the term. (FL)

A paper presented at a workshop on student teaching and the methods class at the Conference on English Education, April 10, 1976. (DD)

A paper, presented at a workshop on "Tests and Measurement" at the 1976 Conference on English Education, which states that test scores should be interpreted just as poetic metaphors are. (DD)

Looks to the future of English education, stressing cooperation, effective use of resources, and evaluation based on research (JL)

Reviews the accuracy of past predictions concerning the future of English education, then makes five new ones. (JL)

Argues that teaching a unit on death provides an opportunity to focus students' reading, writing, and thinking on a subject area in which they are vitally interested. Suggests activities and describes the extensive literature available on death suitable for elementary through college students. (AEA)