Chat room musings : English teaching in a changing world / Gordon M. Pradl and John S. Mayher -- 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.