Hi Everyone,
I want to pass along this submission request from Alisa Belzer, one of
our FOB authors. Please read below and contact her if you are
interested!

All the best,
Julie

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Special Issue Announcement

The editors of International Journal of Literacy and Numeracy Studies 
are pleased to announce that Dr. Alisa Belzer of Rutgers University 
and Dr. Ralf St. Clair of University of Glasgow will edit a special
issue of LNS to be published in 2007. 
This issue will focus on how national accountability systems are 
influencing practice at the program and
classroom levels.  The guest editors are seeking submissions of 
papers that explore the choices and compromises and the costs and 
benefits of increased demands for standardized accountability and 
reporting procedures.  They are also interested in papers that 
document how teachers and learners are developing and maintaining 
"responsive" practices in this time when increasingly narrow 
accountability and curricular systems seem to be reducing the options 
open to educators and learners.  They would like especially to urge 
practitioners to contribute, either as solo authors or in
collaboration with university researchers or policy makers. Please 
submit papers to Dr. Belzer or Dr. St. Clair by June 30, 2007 at the
latest. If you
would like to contact our guest editors directly, email them at 
belzera at rci.rutgers.edu and/or rstclair at educ.gla.ac.uk.

I'm excited about doing this issue, but scared that we won't get 
submissions, so I'm trying to put the word out in the US where I 
think this journal is relatively unknown.

Thanks and all the best,

Alisa
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Julie McKinney
Discussion List Moderator
World Education/NCSALL
jmckinney at worlded.org