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.