In the fall of 1973, the Montana Association of Teachers of English surveyed 750 junior and senior high school English teachers in Montana, to gather information about their current teaching assignments, their preparation to teach, their current needs for teaching, and the priorities they saw for services or programs in the state university…

The background of the Kanawha County, language arts textbook controversy is described, and several factors are examined as possible precipitating elements in the controversy. The major actions, reactions, and occurrences in Kanawha County from April 1974 to April 1975 are reported, and various sources are used to document positions taken by…

Publishers' descriptions of new books and materials for secondary language arts are presented. (JH)

English teachers are being criticized on many fronts. They should make the public aware that their main responsibility is to teach not utilitarian skills, but the humane basics, to present literature and writing in a way that will make students more compassionate and aware of life. (SJL)

Late in the summer of 1966, the so-called Dartmouth Conference--the first large-scale international conference on English teaching--was convened at Dartmouth College. Here is an outline of the educational changes that took place during the development of the New English and a few reasons why it did not receive the broad approval that many…

Urges English educators to develop career-related methods courses and illustrates how career education has been incorporated successfully in the elementary and secondary school English curriculum. (DD)

A 1975 study of community college composition programs revealed a dismaying lack of knowledge about educational innovations. (DD)

Describes a three and a half year study designed to change the seventh and eighth grade English/language arts curriculum and teaching procedures in a rural, mountain school district through inservice training. (DD)

Discusses the function of technical writing in the two-year college and outlines goals and suggested content for a two-year college technical writing program. (GW)

Reports on the composition program at a New Jersey high school and on faculty members' viewpoints about goals and problems in the teaching of writing skills. (GW)

Describes an analysis of the content of the CLEP General Examination in English Composition which found that the emphasis is placed on the student's knowledge of standard written English. (MB)