Tables of contents

*Perspectives / Learning: Whose job is it?

Marge Scherer

Students at Bat

Thomas R Guskey and Eric M Anderman

*Footprints in the digital age

Will Richardson

Amplifying student voice

Dana L Mitra

The goals of differentiation

Carol Ann Tomlinson

Releasing responsibility

Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

*Springing into active learning

Allison Zmuda

Solving behavior problems together

Caltha Crowe

*What students want from teachers

*More student responses: What students want from teachers (online only)

Formative assessment that empowers

Susan Brookhart, Connie Moss and Beverly Long

Learning in depth

Kieran Egan

Working with tech-savvy kids

Sylvia Martinez and Dennis Harper

Dude, what choice do I have? Two teachers reflect on the benefits and pitfalls of giving students options

Michael J Vokoun and Terry Patrick Bigelow

*The power of audience

Steven Levy

*All about assessment / The assessment-savvy student

W James Popham

*The principal connection / Taking hold of learning

Joanne Rooney

*The learning leader / Leadership for student empowerment

Douglas B Reeves

*What research says about … / Balancing the concrete and the abstract

Tracy Huebner

*Special report / Unprepared for college

Deborah Perkins-Gough

Editorial

Tommy Dreyfus

195

Abstraction and consolidation of the limit procept by means of instrumented schemes: The complementary role of three different frameworks

Ivy Kidron

197

Students’ images and their understanding of definitions of the limit of a sequence

Kyeong Hah Roh

217

Deductive reasoning: In the eye of the beholder

Michal Ayalon and Ruhama Even

235

Signifying 'students', 'teachers' and 'mathematics': A reading of a special issue

Tony Brown

249

On semiotics and subjectivity: A response to Tony Brown’s 'signifying "students", "teachers", and "mathematics": a reading of a special issue'

Norma Presmeg and Luis Radford

265

Review of the proceedings of the 2001, 2003 and 2005 French summer schools in Didactics of Mathematics

Rudolf Straesser

277

Brian Griffiths (1927–2008) – His pioneering contributions to mathematics and education

Keith Jones and Joanna Mamona-Downs

283

Challenging traditional representations of texts and learning

Kathy Hall

121

Playing and resisting: Rethinking young people's reading cultures

Alex Kendall

123

Metaphors, discourse and identity in adult literacy policy

Nina Taylor

131

Txt msg n school literacy: Does texting and knowledge of text abbreviations adversely affect children's literacy attainment?

Beverly Plester, Clare Wood, Victoria Bell

137

Graphonomics, automaticity and handwriting assessment

Oliver Tucha, Lara Tucha, Klaus W Lange

145

'It's all coming together': An encounter between implied reader and actual reader in the Australian rainforest

Sandra J Williams

156

Kindergarten reading and writing curricula in the European Union

Eufimia Tafa

162

Book review: Reading Photographs to Write with Meaning and Purpose Grades 4–12, by L Van Horn

Eve Bearne

171

Book review: Essentials of Literacy 0–7, by Tina Bruce and Jenny Spratt

Tony Martin

172

A longitudinal study of the development of reading prosody as a dimension of oral reading fluency in early elementary school children

Justin Miller, Paula J Schwanenflugel

'The Blues Playingest Dog You Ever Heard Of': (Re)positioning literacy through African American blues rhetoric

Carmen Kynard

Emergent biliteracy in young Mexican immigrant children

Iliana Reyes, Patricia Azuara

Collaborative reasoning in China and Korea

Ting Dong, Richard C Anderson, Il-Hee Kim, Yuan Li

Available free for download: IRA Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2008. Kindergarten as Nexus of Practice: A mediated discourse analysis of reading, writing, play and design in an early literacy apprenticeship

Karen E Wohlwend