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 todayOs secondary English language arts education. Challenges the field to re-conceptualize its purpose and value while urging language arts educators to rethink their...

Brause and Mayher's powerful message is that many teachers do not realize their potential as educators because they lack sound knowledge to back up and properly implement their ideas. They provide guidance on how to read research and how to conduct research in the classroom. They aim to engender in teachers an awareness of the possibility of research to broaden their outlook of their profession.