The Best Practice Research Scholarship programme (BPRS) was one of a series of initiatives designed by the English Department for Educational Studies (DfES) between 2000 and 2003, to support teachers' continuing professional development. Each year, around 1,000 Scholarships of up to 3,000 British pounds each, were awarded to serving classroom…

This essay offers a history of a basic writing course that began at a public ivy campus in the 1970s. Relying on principles of universal design and on insights derived from his school's studio program about ways the institution's selective functions can impact curricular matters, the author describes how the basic writing course was merely…

Based on his department's experience with curriculum change, the head of the English department at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) concluded that curriculum change must be local, incremental, and unending. A consequence of the claim that curriculum change should be local is that proposed changes must be consistent with local realities--and…

English is the second-largest major at the University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, Washington). Students may choose one of three emphases within their major: literature, creative writing, or professional writing. Puget Sound's professional writing program has grown gradually and slowly over the last 11-year period to include an array of 10 professional…

Focuses attention on means of preparing and improving college staff, and outlines those points which college department heads must consider when evaluating faculty programs. (RB)

Attempts to define the role of English in the system of higher education. (RB)

Describes some of the idols of English departments and suggests what must be done to revivify the teaching of college English. (RB)

A recounting of the author's experiences after becoming a gay activist at Kent State University. (JH)

Contains the results of a recent survey on the employment possibilities for doctoral students about to receive their degrees and those who graduated since 1971 with a Ph. D. in English. (RB)

A survey of what English department chairpersons look for from reading specialists. (RB)

This booklet describes the English curriculum at Narrabri High School in Narrabri, Australia. Discussed are such topics as the district of Narrabri, the policy of the high school, the English department and its policies (homework, faculty meetings, discipline, textbooks, and faculty library); a model of English studies, reading, writing…

The Anglo-American Conference held at Dartmouth College in the summer of 1966, was designed to improve the teaching of English and the cooperation between scholars and teachers in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. Major issues in English education were identified in advance of the conference. Papers on these topics were discussed at an…