Teaching English Today: Advocating Change in the Secondary Curriculum

This book offers a rare examination of the secondary English curriculum, focusing on current trends and looking pragmatically at reform initiatives. Providing both a review and a heads-up about what's new?or what should be new?in English classrooms, this accessible text:

• Features essays from well-known educators and researchers, in the United States and Canada, who provide insight and offer a wide range of perspectives on today?s secondary English language arts education.
• Challenges the field to re-conceptualize its purpose and value while urging language arts educators to rethink their practice.
• Focuses on contemporary issues, including assessment, multiculturalism, critical literacy, expanding definitions of text and literacy, technology in the classroom, censorship, the power of mass media, and much more.
• Raises pertinent questions about mandated curricula, high-stakes testing, conventional teaching practices, and teacher preparation.