This book focuses on the impact of sustained and evolving collaborations, showcasing research and scholarship in a faculty group--consisting of 28 professors from five regional universities--meeting and supporting each other since 2002. Originally an innovation introduced by Cheryl J. Craig and funded by a reform movement, the Faculty Academy…

This paper reports on the findings from a survey of academics responsible for undergraduate programmes in English and examines the extent to which they were aware of recent reform of A level English and had made, or are making, changes to their courses as a result. Our findings demonstrate that relatively low numbers felt that they had a strong…

For the forty-fourth time, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented online and onsite during the annual AECT Convention. Volume 1 contains papers dealing primarily with research and development topics. Papers dealing with…

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) create new common ground for high school-college collaborations through emphasis on expository writing in English language arts (ELA) and writing in content areas across the curriculum. This article, written collaboratively by a composition-rhetoric scholar and a secondary education leadership scholar who…

Academic alliances between secondary school teachers and postsecondary faculty are discussed. Teachers and faculty who teach the same subject in the same geographical area voluntarily meet regularly to examine the quality of teaching and learning in their discipline at the local level. School and college faculty together develop some common ground…

Describes and explores a collaborative classroom research project between a secondary English teacher and a university education faculty member. Examines shifting power relations in the classroom, competing agendas, constraints imposed by the study's design, and differences in interpretation. (SR)

This study is concerned with the relative amount of overlap or duplication existing between the first two years of the liberal arts college and the last two years of secondary school in the areas of English, science, social studies, and mathematics. Financial problems and other valid areas for concern are also explored: 1) How valid may repetition…

This collection contains four papers that describe action research projects in different settings. The first paper, "Action Research: An Approach Called DATA-DATA," by John M. Peters, is a guide to action research for practitioners. The DATA-DATA model integrates features of reflective practice and formal research methodology. The model, suited to…

Universities can provide successful consultation to schools by learning to work effectively with administrators to remove roadblocks that prevent effective inservice. This article examines relevant issues, including types of consultation, targeting behaviors, commitment to change, prior interventions, intervention structure, time management, and…

Views of three committee members of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) are presented in response to questions posed by the National Commission on Excellence in Education. The opinions of these members of Committee C on College and University Teaching, Research, and Publication are individual positions, rather than those of…

Proposes, in general terms, three interrelated actions to begin to address the problems facing higher education English departments: (1) an enhanced public relations campaign for higher education; (2) greater collaboration with secondary schools and community colleges; and (3) an elevation of self-image and healing of the internecine stresses…

Reports on the growth of collaborative groups of foreign language teachers that were spawned by the "Strengthening the Humanities through Foreign Language and Literature Studies" project. Describes workshop activities, projects, resource banks, political activities, and information dissemination of some groups and the role administrators play in…

School/university collaboratives place great demands on participating organizations and individuals. This article presents two scenes from a collaborative effort involving a college of education and its local public high school. These scenes illustrate the need for collaborators to identify and integrate their specific aims and demonstrate mutual…

This paper cites articles in the popular press that agree that there is a "writing crisis" in the United States, and it notes the lack of general agreement on solutions for the problem. Articles by writers in the English profession are then examined with reference to the writers' views on the seriousness of the writing crisis, reasons…

Discusses a campaign advocating collaboration between college teachers and secondary school teachers, especially in the field of foreign language study. Notes that this collaboration has existed in the field of foreign language teaching for more than 30 years and looks at some of the problems encountered during that time. (SED)