NEW MATERIALS FOR THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH, THE ENGLISH PROGRAM OF THE USOE.

IN 1963 J. N. Hook, the first Coordinator for Project English in the United States Office of Education, reviewed briefly the growth and current status of Project English for the profession (“Project English: The First Year,” PMLA, LXXVIII, September 1963, Part 2, 3336). In 1964 Erwin R. Steinberg, the second Coordinator, reported at length to the profession on the history and prospects for research in English funded by the Office of Education (“Research on the Teaching of English Under Project English,” PMLA, LXXIX, September 1964, Part 2, 50-76). He incorporated into his account summaries of the current status of each Curriculum Study Center, prepared by the Directors of the Centers themselves. The following report, again prepared by Directors of the twenty-five Curriculum Study and Demonstration Centers, brings the historical record of the Office of Education English Program up through January 1966. Through a special pre-printing for participants in NDEA Summer Institutes and through publication in the September 1966 Directory issue of PMLA, the profession will again be informed of the expanding federal support for English. The curriculum materials being developed in the Study and Demonstration Centers, which are described below, range from K-12 in language, literature, and composition, with attention to the problems of the disadvantaged, the deaf, the average as well as the able student, and the student learning English as a second language. The Study Center at Carnegie Institute of Technology was the first to complete and publish its curriculum, for grades 10-12. The Demonstration Centers at Berkeley and at Western Reserve completed their contracts with the Office of Education in 1965.