English Journal, Vol. 76, No. 8, December 1987

Table of Contents

Issue Theme: Testing and Assessment in English-Tyranny or Triumph?

• EJ Forum: American English-Two Voices

• Why the English Language Amendment? An Autobiographical Statement

  S. I. Hayakawa

• Whose Voice Is It Anyway? Rodriguez' Speech in Retrospect

  Victor Villanueva, Jr.

• Booksearch: A Recommended Book of Hispanic American Experience

• EJ Focus: Testing and Assessment in English-Tyranny or Triumph?

• Testing: A Political Scalpel

  Rick Monroe

• A Report Card for the 1986 NAEP Writing Report Card

  Jeff Zorn

• Testing on Both Sides: A Comparison

  John S. Simmons

• Statewide Direct Writing Assessment

  Irvin Peckham

• AWE: Classroom Use of a State Testing Program

  Claudia Takacs

• Time on My Hands: Handling the Paper Load

  Margie Krest

• EJ Workshop: Ideas, Resources & Reviews

• The Body Biography: A Framework for Student Writing

  William Underwood

• An Elizabethan Interlude: A Course for Middle Schoolers

  Judith B. Rosenfeld

• Multiple-Storyline Books for Young Adults: Why?

  Jeffrey S. Copeland

• The Round Table: Teaching Values in the English Classroom

• The Uses of Usage

  Dennis Baron

• Facing Our Own Literacy Crisis

  Driek Zirinsky

• Turning News into Literature

  Nick Otten and Marjorie Stelmach

• Tolerance and Literary Judgment: Two Poems by Walter Bargen

  Mark Vogel

• Instructional Gifts

  Carol Pope and Karen Kutiper

• Against Manipulation: From Reading to Criticism

  Robert E. Probst

• The Many Sides of Young Romance

  Elizabeth A. Belden and Judith M. Beckman

• Poetry

  Kay Meier, Rex Grove, Gwen Fitzhugh, Kayla L. McClurg, Jay Jacoby, Dennis D. Sandmeier, Joan Johannes, Jean Kabbert, Nancy G. Westerfield, Bettye T. Spinner

• Editorial Comment: 'Tis the Season

• NCTE to You

• Indexes

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