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These 4 issues of the English Leadership Quarterly comprise volume 16, published during 1994. Articles in number 1 deal with practical advice, and include: "The Law of Privacy and the Writing Teacher" (Ben T. Allen); Beware of Teachers Who Laminate Their Lesson Plans and Other Useful Suggestions about Teaching" (Robert Perrin); "Firefighter, Cook, Pack Rat, Teacher: Advice for Chairs" (Mary M. Licklider); Dependence and Grade Inflation: A Vicious Cycle" (Candace O'Donnell); "When Models Collide" (Diana Dreyer); "Writing the Mall" (John S. Simmons); "When Does a Vulgarity Become an Obscenity?" (Carol Jago); and "The First Six Minutes" (Terrie St. Michel). Articles in number 2 deal with innovations and classic ideas, and include: "The Standards Movement Explained and Considered" (Jim Burke); "A Classic Assignment" (Rick Chambers); "Local Color--Local Voices: A Focus for Student Research" (Rocky Colavito); "One Teacher's Odyssey toward Better Teaching" (Joy Marks Gray); and "The Appreciative Focus in the Listening Curriculum" (Constance L. Hoag and Maurine V. Richardson). Articles in number 3 present case studies in English leadership and include "Professional Growth through Supervision" (Daniel A. Heller); "Losing the Chair: Whose Seat Is It, Anyway?" (Ted Lehmann); and "A Whole Language Vision" (Alyce Hunter). Articles in number 4 deal with the promise and paradox of national standards, and include "Goals 2000 Adds New Issues to the Standards Movement" (Miles Myers); "The Edison Project: New Standards for New Schools" (Francie Alexander); "The Language Arts Standards Project: A Professional and Community-Based Collaboration" (Charlotte Higuchi); and "Looking Back: A Local Standards Project That Failed" (Larry Crapse). (RS)

These four issues of the English Leadership Quarterly represent those published during 1993. Articles in number 1 deal with parent involvement and participation, and include: "Opening the Doors to Open House" (Jolene A. Borgese); "Parent/Teacher Conferences: Avoiding the Collision Course" (Robert Perrin); "Expanding Human Resources: Trained Volunteers in the Writing Center" (Susan Benjamin); "Involving Parents" (Ruben Friedman); "Three Areas of Parental Concern: A Letter to the Superintendent" (David Roberts); "Partnership Planning: An Alternative Model" (William J. Gallagher); "The Paperless Class" (Randall E. Smith); and "How to Help Your Child become a Better Writer." Articles in number 2 deal with politics and change and include: "The Voices We Hear, the Pressures We Feel" (Jeff Golub); "Teaching Intentional Errors in Standard English: A Way to 'big smart english'" (Donald A. McAndrew and C. Mark Hurlbert); "Women and E-Mail: Issues of Gender and Technology" (Pamela Takayoshi); "A Pro-Choice Curriculum" (Carol Jago); and "'Macbeth' and Sense of Self" (Terrie St. Michel). Articles in number 3 concern teachers' professional role and include: "Tale One: Writing with a Writing Workshop" (Wendy Bishop); "Tale Two: Teacher Writing with a First-Year Writing Class" (Sandra Gail Teichmann); "Reaching Parents through Local Newspapers" (Carol Jago); "Struck by Lightning, Twice" (Jan Morgenstern); and "Journal Writing and Active Learning in College Art Classes" (William Murdick). Articles in number 4 concern a love of literature and include: "Reading Literature and Making Meaning" (Lee Williams); "Integrated Teaching: A Common Ground among Literature, Science, Mathematics, and Social Studies" (M. P. Cavanaugh); "By Heart: A Case for Memorization" (Carol Jago); "Contemporary Literature, Heterogeneous Style" (Eileen Oliver); "Integrating Personal and Literary Response" (Rick Chambers); "The Book or the Movie?" (Janine Rider); "Turning Short Stories into Readers' Theater" (Gerald Grunska); and "The Day the Textbook Evaluators Came to Town" (Beverly Haley). (RS)

These four issues of the English Leadership Quarterly represent those published during 1992. Articles in number 1 deal with testing assessing, and measuring student performance, and include: "Real Evaluation: Portfolios as an Effective Alternative to Standardized Testing" (Kate Kiefer); "No More Objective Tests, Ever" (Carol Jago); "Process-Based Literature/Writing Examinations" (Barbara King-Shaver); "Portfolio Assessment: Students as Producers" (Henry Kiernan); "Eliminating the Negative Effects of Ability Grouping on Low-Achieving Students" (Wendell Schwartz and Dan Galloway); and "The Rhetorical Stance of Assessment" (Robert Perrin). Articles in number 2 deal with reading and writing connections and include: "Building a Community of Readers and Writers: Portrait of a Teacher at Work" (Driek Zirinsky); "WC: At the Heart of the Junior High" (Mary Licklider); "Three Roads Converge in a Microchip: Reading, Writing, and Computer-Assisted Instruction" (J. Colavito); "From Chaos to Competency: Weak Readers Learn To Write" (Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber); "Using Reading- and Writing-to-Learn To Promote Revision" (John Wilson Swope); and "A Response Journal Makes the Reading/Writing Connection" (Rebecca Laubach). Articles in number 3 deal with literacy and include: "The Reality of Reform" (Elliot W. Eisner); "To Be Literate" (William F. Williams); "Literacy: The Crisis Mentality" (William T. Fagan); "Collaboration for Critical Literacy" (Pamela Farrell); and "'Classics Illustrated' Comics: Promoting Personal Response" (George I. Martin). Articles in number 4 deal with alternatives and include: "Learning and Teaching in Community" (Kathleen Blake Yancey and Boyd Davis); "Writing: Therapy without the Therapist" (Mike Tebo); "Metaphors from the Arts: Rethinking Contexts for Writing" (Rob Perrin); "New Beginnings for Change" (Susan Benjamin and Jane Gard); and "When the Students Create the Questions" (Joy Marks Gray). (SR)

These four issues of the English Leadership Quarterly represent the quarterly for 1991. Articles in number 1 deal with whole language and include: "CEL: Shorter and Better" (Myles D. Eley); "Toward a New Philosophy of Language Learning" (Kathleen Strickland); "Whole Language: Implications for Secondary Classrooms" (Barbara King-Shaver); "Whole Language: Moving to a Whole New Neighborhood" (Bill Newby); "Student Writers Set Their Own Goals" (Sharon Wieland); "Assessment in a Whole Language Environment: Teaching Students to Document Their Own Writing Progress" (Edgar H. Thompson); and "Returning Vocabulary to Context" (Carol Jago). Articles in number 2 deal with learning labels and include: "Unmasking Psycho/Biological Labels for Language Acts" (Cornelius Cosgrove); "'Skills Kids' and Real Literature" (Sharon Wieland); "Tracking or Sidetracking?" (Carole Bencich); "Flor: A Learning Disabled Child in a Whole Language Classroom" (Deborah Wells); "Room to Talk: Opening Possibilities with the 'At-Risk'" (Suzanne Miller); "Do You Teach LEPs or REAL Students?" (Darlynn Fink); and "A Silent Calling: Why I Chose This Career" (Ron Goba). The changing literature classroom is the focus of number 3 and includes: "Teaching Literature, Canon Formation, and Multiculturalism" (William F. Williams); "Feminism and the Reconstitution of Family" (Jody Price); "When Whole Language Learners Reach Us: Challenges for a Changing Secondary Literature Classroom" (John Wilson Swope); "Writing about Literature with Large-Group Collaboration: The We-Search Paper" (Esther Broughton and Janine Rider); "Tying Reader Response to Group Interaction in Literature Classrooms (Edgar H. Thompson); and "Mr. C. Didn't Do It This Way" (E. Carolyn Tucker). Articles in number 4 discuss whole language, literature, and teaching and include: "Putting an End to 'Cliffs Notes' Mentalities" (Pamela Kissel); "Placing Whole Language in a Workshop Setting" (William Murdick and Rosalie Segin); "The Business of Television" (Rick Chambers); "Student Teacher Education Program" (Joellen P. Killion); "Using Computers to Foster Collaborative Learning in the Creative Writing Classroom" (Theresa M. Hune); "Sentence Combining: A Spoonful of Sugar" (Jace Condravy); "Taking Johnny Back" (Carol Jago); and "Leadership as Shared Vision" (Joseph I. Tsujimoto). (SR)

These four issues of the CSSEDC Quarterly (Conference for Secondary School English Department Chairpersons) represent the quarterly for 1990. Articles in number 1 deal with student teachers and include: "Student Teaching: Smoothing Out the Rough Spots" (Susan B. Argyle and Fred C. Feitler); "A Partnership for Urban Student Teaching" (Jerome T. Halpern); "Coping with the Paper Load" (Ruth Davis); and "Collaborative Learning for Teacher Education" (Phoebe Speck). Articles in number 2 discuss alternatives to the term paper and include: "Teaching Quantitative Research Writing: Or How I Stopped Hating the Paper and Learned to Love the Process" (Diana Y. Dreyer); "Research without the Waste of Time" (Carol Jago); "Real Research for Real Readers" (Mary G. Bernath); "The Two-Source Synthesis: The Heart of a Research Paper" (Dan Donlan); and "The Research Paper Redux" (Henry Kiernan). Number 3 deals with supervision and evaluation and includes: "To Be, Or Not To Be, a Second-Year Teacher" (Jane A. Zaharias and Kathleen T. Benghiat); "A Journal for Classroom Observations" (Carol Jago); "From Clinical to Collegial to Self-Directed: A Progressive Model of Supervision and Evaluation" (Susan Benjamin and Janice Jordan); "Supervision Means Recognition" (Betty C. Sisco); and "Leading with Imagination" (Paul C. Bellin). Articles in number 4 discuss leadership and include: "Leading Classroom Discussions" (Sharon Wieland); "Learning to Trust" (Rebecca Laubach); "Creating a Climate for Leadership" (Susan Benjamin); "Leadership through Reflective Thinking" (Jeanne Gerlach and Nancy Hoffman); "Leading Schoolwide Change: A Plan for Success" (Terrie St. Michel); "Continuing Concerns of Department Leaders" (Theodore Lehmann II); "Traditional and Romantic Views of Teachers" (Robert C. Small, Jr.); and "Team Building: Connecting Substance to Educational Leadership" (Henry Kiernan). (SR)