Chat room musings: English teaching in a changing world / Gordon M. Pradl and John S. Mayher -- A history not yet past: where then is here? / John Willinsky -- Uncertain relations: English and cultural studies / Robert Morgan -- Passionate contracts: discursive contradiction and struggle in secondary English teacher education programs / Ursula A. Kelly -- "Words is Changin' every day": language and literacy in the urban contact zone / Maryann Dickar -- Tightrope walkers: the balancing and unbalancing act of teaching writing / Jill Kedersha McClay -- "Trying to bend the tree when it is already grown": spanning the spectrum of African Diaspora Englishes in the college writing classroom / Carmen Kynard -- Developing critical responses to stories in many media / Margaret Mackey -- Words and windows: using technology for critical literacy / Roberta F. Hammett -- Context, text, and tests: issues in English assessment in the United States / Sarah W. Beck. Includes bibliographical references and index.