Reviews the literature in the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) on the responses of prominent English educators to the back-to-basics movement. (Author) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Results (Interpretation).

A checklist of procedural guidelines for selecting new and replacement textbooks, films, tapes, kits, anthologies, and other instructional materials. (DD)

Lists 1975-1976 books which are of interest to the older adolescent and reflect several noticeable reading trends. (DD)

A paper, presented at a workshop on "Tests and Measurement" at the 1976 Conference on English Education, which states that test scores should be interpreted just as poetic metaphors are. (DD)

Suggests that the attempt by students to guess at the underlying sense of a poem is encouraged by teachers' pursuit of right and wrong answers, failure to respond to form and context, and presentation of poetry at a level of conceptualization beyond students' ability to respond. (KS)

Summarizes and criticizes report findings. (KS)

Boards are effectively countering teacher strikes and threats of teacher strikes. (IRT)

Dream reports of highly creative male high school students were rated by clinical psychologists as exhibiting greater primary process thinking than the dream reports of matched controls; their dream protocols also included a significantly greater proportion of symbolism, condensations, and unusual combinations but a smaller proportion of…

Describes a short course on sex-role stereotyping in which students were allowed to discover for themselves the myths regarding sex stereotypes. (Author/HMV)

A new typology suggests staff development guidelines for helping educators work more effectively with ethnically and racially diverse groups of students. (Author)