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.