Contains an interview with journalist Edwin Newman in which Newman urges that students be taught to use language with greater precision, and a response to Newman by John S. Mayher and Rita S. Brause. (DD)

Laments the trend toward the use of management and administrative jargon as the language of school analysis. Endorses a new discourse and mode of analysis of the nature of schooling that would indict the shortcomings but also reveal new possibilities for organizing school experiences. (HTH)

Along with listening, reading, speaking and writing skills, schools must develop students' thinking skills. (JH)

Challenges traditional assumptions about the language arts curriculum. Suggests three alternative goals for language arts programs. Notes that these goals are designed to promote equity as espoused by the Jeffersonian ideal--teaching language and literacy in such a way that all people have an equal voice in a democracy. (RS)

Argues that, although computers are wonderful machines, their role in the curriculum should not take center stage. Stresses that attention should be placed on what educators are trying to help students to experience and only secondarily should educators consider whether the computer can help in that endeavor. (MG)

Notes that many of the topics presented in old issues of NCTE's elementary-level professional journal are not unlike those the profession is addressing today. Presents several child-centered goals for elementary education in the next 10 years. (HTH)

Explores several concepts relevant to instructional materials that emerged from seminars sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association. Describes how basal readers--so prevalent in instruction--fall short of these concepts, and what can be done to improve instruction. (HTH)

Presents a policy statement by the National Council of Teachers of English that identifies the ways in which the study of English contributes to the knowledge, understanding, and skills of those who will make up the society of the future. (HTH)