English Journal - Volume 48, Issue 3, 1959

What is good preparation for written composition work in college? What plans are being tried for more effectively articulating high school and college teaching of writing? This article deals with these questions on a national basis. Dr. Grommon is an associate professor of English and education at Stanford University and an associate director of the NCTE’s Commission on the English Curriculum.

This article should boost the morale of many English teachers—and perhaps of their students, tool English is important, even in the atomic energy field! Take the word of a former English teacher in the Appleton, Wisconsin, SeniorHigh School who is now a technical writer for the Goodyear Atomic Corporation, Portsmouth, Ohio

The retarded reader is a problem for teachers of all subjects, but English teachers will welcome this specific description of the remedial reading program initiated at the Sarasota, Florida, Junior High School where the author teaches

There is nothing novel about an article on book reports. But there are some novel ideas for handling book reports in this account. Mrs. Inhelder teaches in the Will Rogers High School, Tulsa, Oklahoma