English Journal - Volume 101, Issue 3, 2012

Members of the Secondary Section Steering Committee comment on topics of importance to English language arts educators.

See how EJ covers have changed over the last 100 years.

Several Council members write about influential articles they read in the pages of NCTE’s centuryold journal.

Tchudi looks back at his editorship during the turbulent 1970s.

The authors look at Moffett's influence on English Journal.

Nilsen and Donelson reflect on their years as EJ editors.

The author discusses the implications of themes taken up in EJ’s first three issues—the science of teaching writing, cultural versus practical training, and student-valued pedagogies—for contemporary English teachers.

A look back at the the Nelms editorship.

The author identifies important similarities between the state of English teaching in 1912 and 2012 and highlights historical links between English teaching and science, Christianity, race, and nation that have not figured prominently in the field’s dominant historical narrative.

Smith discusses some of the changes in EJ design and production.

A teacher and member of the NCTE Task Force on Council History and 2011 uses discussion of New Criticism in EJ to examine how literary criticism has been implemented in classrooms and how it might be developed in the 21st century.

Christenbury dicusses what she has learned from her predecessors.

A high school English teacher and historian of Shakespeare instruction examines the evolution in EJ of performance as a mode of teaching students to understand and appreciate the plays still so frequently taught.

Monseau looks back on her time as editor.

In surveying English Journal, the authors highlight voices from the past, of the present, and for the future to offer a vision of how teachers can prepare students to succeed as writers in the 21st century.

A look back at Reid's editorship.

A look back at Reid's editorship.

The current EJ editor reflects on his term thus far.