The #MeToo and Time's Up movements have each cast light on the prevalence of sexual harassment in a variety of media industries. In this piece, I reflect on a college YAL seminar in which my students read Sherman Alexie's "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian." The class discussion quickly became focused on Alexie himself and…

The history between Cheektowaga Central and the University at Buffalo illustrates the benefits of forming long-term collaborative relationships between teacher education programs and local schools. In 1998, the author was approached by Suzanne Miller regarding the possibility of Meg Callahan, then a doctoral student at the University at Buffalo,…

Describes a five-meeting cycle which enables a high school English department to cooperate in making constructive curriculum changes. (DD)

Reviews two ERIC documents on discrimination against women throughout academia, by college English departments, in literary works, and in literary criticism. (AN)

Describes the efforts of three college English departments to train their undergraduate and graduate students to teach writing. (HOD)

Presents the findings of a questionnaire survey of 140 college and university English departments regarding courses in children's literature. (DD)

Suggestions for teacher-oriented supervision of classroom practices, development of new courses, and grading and assignment policies are discussed. (HTH)

A coordinator responsible both to the college and the school system can insure a continuing and productive dialogue. (JH)

Tells the story of one English department's struggle over curriculum controversies and the implications of that struggle for the integrity of specific teachers' classroom curriculum and the literary education of their students. (TB)

Discusses the connections between the study of literary texts, language, and composition and the impact of these connections on English instruction and English programs. (SRT)

Applauds the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) for maintaining its high principles in its attempt to develop national standards in English for the federal government. Suggests that NCTE acted wisely when it refused to be enticed by lucrative government contracts to bend its pedagogical principles. (TB)

The separation of the mechanics of rhetoric from the ethics of rhetoric has had disastrous consequences, in education and in our public life. (JH)

Discusses five aspects of English teacher preparation that need to be improved: (1) teacher certification requirements; (2) understanding by college professors of the realities of teaching English at the secondary level; (3) cooperation; (4) involvement by English professors in their students' student teaching experience; (5) screening of…