The essays contained in this issue discuss some of the recent changes in the English curriculum (including the move toward accountability), the increase in the number of elective courses, and the effect of recent innovations on the future of English as a staple of the high school curriculum. Contents include "The English Curriculum: Fossil, Amoeba or Complex Organism,""Your Own Personal Rx for G. E. F.,""Curriculum Shock,""English from APEX to Nadir,""A Custom-Designed English Program,""Why Not Try Thematic Unit Planning?""As the World Turns On,""Man in Conflict: A Program Designed for the English Open Space,""Utopia in English,""Interdisciplinary Team Teaching at Alhambra High School,""Is English Worth Saving?""Accountability English Style,""English, Community Style,""Gamemaking in the English Curriculum,""Some New Questions and Some Old Answers About the English Curriculum,""The Black Idiom,""High School Teaching Revisited,""Implications of Elementary School Practice on Small Group Instruction,""Prove It! I Can't,""If I Had One Wish for Something New, Really New, in the English Curriculum""Current Reading," and "Shoptalk." (RB)