English Education - Volume 29, Issue 1, 1997

Reports on a survey that investigated significant differences within the English teacher community in terms of the beliefs and practices on key issues. Makes a contribution to a larger National Council of Teachers of English project to foster communication among disparate groups of English educators.

Tells the story of one English department’s struggle over curriculum controversies and the implications of that struggle for the integrity of specific teachers’ classroom curriculum and the literary education of their students.