Exploring blue highways: literacy reform, school change, and the creation of learning communities

Part I: Evolving teaching and research communities.

Discovering new routes to literacy and learning / JoBeth Allen [et al.]

Evolving research communities / JoBeth Allen, Marilynn Cary, and Frances Hensley

Part II: Active learning, inclusive teaching.

Teaching, learning, and partnerships: strategies for including special needs students / Jan Kimbrell-Lee and Terry Wood

Being somebody else: informal drama in the fourth grade / Carol Carr Kieffer

The Playground experience / Ruth Rowland

Part III: Authentic assessment.

A Schoolwide study of assessment alternatives / Gwen Bailey

Developing portfolio processes: 'If you don't have anything in there, you can't do this' / Linda Morrison and Ronald Kieffer

Part IV: Enhanced communication.

Whole language, media centers, and classroom libraries: research in action / Lisa James Delgado [et al.]

A Communication triple crown: making home-school connections among parents, students, and teachers / Jennifer White

Part V: Student perspectives.

New pathways to literacy: a reflective look at a first-year pre-kindergarten program / Marilynn Cary, Lori Davis, and Janet Benton

'Make learning funner, so people want to learn': a longitudinal study of students' perceptions about schooling / Lolita Brown [et al.]

Action research: where's the action? / JoBeth Allen.