Offers opposing views of the merit of EQuality project, a high school reform movement designed to improve students' performance through curriculum changes. (JL)

Presents examples of new approaches and materials for using television in educational settings. (RL)

Presents the findings of a study to determine the "English Journal" articles (between 1960 and 1975) most important to English teachers and the concerns of English teachers regarding curriculum development. (DD)

Discusses current thinking on the theory-practice relationship within both literary and curriculum theory by presenting ideas and positions of representative figures from each discipline. Suggests an approach that seeks to capitalize on the important and common aspects of both. (KEH)

An attitude questionnaire completed by 60 British teachers of English and a media education survey completed by 20 of them indicated they do not agree that the national curriculum should be revised by returning to narrow prescriptions and dropping media education. Teachers support a broad-based approach including personal response and critical…

Describes a practical approach to curricular revision from the point of view of a English department chair who presided over the remaking of the graduate curriculum and the hiring of new faculty. (RS)

Describes the contradictory impulses embedded in the secondary English curriculum. Considers changing notions of the curriculum and recent trends in curriculum design and theory. Outlines the prominent features of successful curricula based on the concept of engendering coherent conversational domains. (HB)

Describes the lessons that can be learned from the recent history of assessment in the English language arts. Considers the possible future uses to which assessment might be put in the near future. Explores the assessment activities of the National Assessment of Educational Progress over the past several years. (HB)

Focuses on the general anxiety changes in authority, convention, and tradition provoke in college faculty as a result of curriculum reform. Discusses an English department chair's personal experiences that were on her mind as she set about revamping an introductory fiction course. Offers her experiences as a cautionary tale about curriculum…

Argues that both composition and literary studies have a common pedagogical vocation and that by harvesting some very general insights from two decades of cultural critique, English departments can develop curricula that will resolve a good deal of the conflict between literature and composition and improve instruction in both. (SC)

Describes an honors course at Kingsborough Community College, New York that introduced students to current significant discourses while developing their capacities for comparison and evaluation, focusing on analytic reading and writing. The course helped students consider questions about globalization they had not previously thought about and…

From a special report, "What's New in Curriculum.

Paper presented at Annual Convention of National Council of Teachers of English (Milwaukee, Wis., November 28-30, 1968).

As an annotated list of recommended English language arts curriculum guides, this booklet is designed to facilitate sound curriculum planning and provide models for schools that are reviewing their programs and need a variety of sample frameworks, units, and lesson plans. The first section presents the guides, arranged by the year in which they…