The Bullock Report, published in 1975, described English teaching practices in England and offered recommendations for improving those practices. This paper examines the background of the report and discusses topics in the report that are of particular interest to Americans, including the setting and monitoring of reading and writing standards, early language development, and classroom practices in teaching writing. The paper also summarizes the report's findings on school organization and teaching practices in English schools, touching on such areas as class size, amount of homework assigned, qualifications of teachers (and the kinds of secondary-level students that they are teaching), basic skills in classes for students aged six and nine, the typical secondary-school English curriculum, and language across the curriculum. Tables are included that show the English activities engaged in by students aged 12 and 14. (GW)