Curriculum guides reviewed and recommended by the National Council of Teachers of English Committee on Curriculum Bulletins during 1974, 1975, and 1976 are listed and briefly annotated. The list seeks to publicize good curriculum planning and guide writing in order to provide models for schools which are revising their own programs. In addition to…

A random sample of 1,109 secondary schools in the 13 southern states was chosen for this questionnaire survey. Each school received a principal's questionnaire and a speech teacher's questionnaire. A total of 889 usable questionnaires (40%) was returned. Results from the survey indicate the extent and nature of speech courses, teacher…

Most students seem not to have learned the transformational grammar their teachers said had been taught.

Notes the absence of articles about poetry in journals and other publications, reflects on the poetry available for children, and urges teachers to include more poetry in the classroom. Concludes with a selected bibliography of poetry written for children. (HOD)

Memories of student protest in the 1960s prompt the author to reflect that English departments seemed to have been teaching more criticism than history and that, if they don't want the 1960s to recur, they had better reverse this proportion. (GT)

Presents axioms about scholarship, learning, English scholarship, and English teaching and examines a little recognized intellectual crisis in current English scholarship. (GW)

Discusses some of the responses to a questionnaire survey of the English Department at the University of Michigan regarding governance, constituency, scholarship, faculty, and curriculum and pedagogy. (DD)

Argues that English instruction should seek the elucidation and celebration of the self through the art of symbolization. (AA)

The place of Mexican American literature in high school English programs is discussed. (JP)

Describes the experience of one teacher that led to his being hired by the English Department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; the curriculum at the University for teaching communication skills to engineers is briefly outlined. (KS)

Discusses the poetry of Canada's native peoples and argues that it deserves a place in the English curriculum. (AA)

Describes the development and implementation of Pasadena's minimum essentials program in English. (IRT)

Discusses the value of teaching and producing contemporary plays as well as classics in high school. Argues for the superior interest level of challenging, low-budget, relevant dramas recently appearing on the young adult scene, such as those by Jerome McDonough and Hindi Brooks. Includes an annotated bibliography of young adult drama. (JG)

Discusses some problems associated with defining "world" literature. Examines information collected from applicants to a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute in the Theory and Teaching of World Literature, concerning teaching situations and opinions on world literature courses. (MM)