Calls for the educator/researcher to listen to and to assimilate children's stories of their school experiences and to reconstruct the meaning of schooling through their eyes, resisting cultural hegemony, and quantification. (HTH)

Explores internal and external measures of excellence, noting that while excellence is easy enough to recognize, a true and reliable measure of excellence is difficult to come by. (HTH)

You will search and search and you will never find a way to teach creative writing. Artists are superior beings. (Author)

Explores the theory and practice of imitation in the rhetorician's sense of emulating models." (Author)

Discusses why and how writing can be taught in the elementary school and suggests some materials that can support an elementary writing program. (HOD)

Offers examples of research in language arts education to illustrate both the values and difficulties of such research. (RL)

Presents ideas for getting elementary students to explore the meaning of cliches and idiomatic phrases. (SJL)

A daily dictation period provides continuous reinforcement of spelling and writing mechanics for elementary school students. (DD)

Looks theoretically at the topic of authenticity, arguing that it is important to get beneath labels and the surface of classroom activities in order to create instruction that is authentic. Uses hermeneutics to examine authenticity as a perspective to help think through important issues. (SR)