Beginning Words: The Ethics of Our Charge as English Educators

Accountability is the common bond between the university and K-12 levels, causing us to lose sight of the goal of helping students to become passionate about the spoken and written word and to help them become capable, critical thinking individuals. The authors in this issue reflect on the ethics of working with students and remind us of the necessity of crating a teaching space in which students, not curriculum or testing - are at the center.