Describes the best young adult novels of 1993. Outlines the contents of the books and evaluates the books as suitable for middle and high school readers. (HB)

Provides school administrators and school districts without clearly defined policies for handling censorship cases with 10 steps by which to deal with such cases. Details how censorship cases should be dealt with by school boards and administrators. (HB)

Outlines current critiques of U.S. higher education. Describes the activities and findings of the Illinois state task force on assessment of language arts in the 1980s. Describes how Illinois State University's English department defined the goals of English majors and dramatically altered the curriculum. (HB)

Across the country, numerous efforts are currently underway to provide struggling adolescent readers with the high-quality interventions, materials, and instruction they need to bring their literacy skills up to grade level expectations. Over the last several years, a strong coalition of educators, researchers, policymakers, professional…

English teachers must consistently design high-quality and balanced curricula that involve the purposeful integration of multicultural literature. But making decisions about the content of the literature curriculum continues to be a complex and political process. Which authors are included? Which are excluded? How do teachers make these decisions?…

Studies of media systems should be part of English education so students could understand how language functions in social contexts. (JH)

Five basic composition courses at Illinois Central College are described in an attempt to show each course's relationship to the entire English curriculum. The curriculum emphasis is on rhetoric, rather than grammar, and stresses a number of pre-writing strategies: sensory observation, memory improvement, pre-comprehension skills, visual…

The students in this English class wrote the history of their town. (JH)

The black teacher of English in the black college must not only expose his students to the traditional literary works and critical methods but must do this in such a way as to be responsive to the unique needs of his constituentcy and the emerging black consciousness of his race. (EH)

Solomon Henry Clark's 1895 address entitled "The New Elocution," focused on the denigration of elocution as an academic discipline, its fall from favor with universities, and the worn, tired, and reductive methods of teaching which he saw around him. Clark's vision--as he stated in his 1915 address and book entitled "Interpretation…

Presents descriptions of several lessons based on the goals of achievingself understanding, understanding of others, and being understood by others. (TO)

Describes the development, the purpose, and the accomplishments of the writing laboratory at the University of Wisconsin. (RB)