Tables of contents

Improving Schools

Volume 8 Number 1, July 2005

Poverty, race and school success Terry Wrigley	115
Old Bank junior, infant and nursery school Mervyn Flecknoe	117
Turn-around pedagogies: improving the education of at-risk students Barbara Kamler, Barbara Comber	121
'They are just like any of us': improving teaching students' understanding of marginalised urban pupils through the use of contextualised literature Jorgelina Abbate-Vaughn	133
The cultural context of 'disruptive behaviour': an overview of research considerations for school educators Carla R Monroe	153
A struggle to leave no child behind: the dichotomies of reform, urban school teachers, and their moral leadership Jacob Easley	161
Learning to learn with parents: lessons from two research projects Elaine Hall, Kate Wall, Steve Higgins, Linda Stephens, Irene Pooley, John Welham	179
Music is why we come to school Amelia Almau	193
'Strangely familiar': authentic experience, teacher education and a thought-provoking environment Jonathan Barnes	199
News summary	207
Book reviews
The essentials of school leadership	211
Too clever by half: a fair deal for gifted children	212
Action research for inclusive education: changing places, changing practices, changing minds	213

KLA

Schools
Socially disadvantaged
Parent and child
Music

Volume 32 Number 2, June 2005

Editorial Richard Byers	58
Inclusion: lessons from the children Phyllis Jones	60
Focus on practice
Literacy acceleration into key stage 3 English strategy – comparing two approaches for secondary-age pupils with literacy difficulties Tony Lingard	67
Speech and language therapy and the Knowles Edge Standards Fund Project: an evaluation of the service provided to a cluster of primary schools Sue Roulstone, Rosalind Owen, Lucy French	78
Speech and language therapy support for pupils with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (BESD) – a pilot project Sarah Heneker	86
Research section
Preparing teachers to teach pupils with special educational needs in more inclusive schools: evaluating a PGCE development Gill Golder, Brahm Norwich, Phil Bayliss	92
Factors associated with successful learning in pupils with dyslexia: a motivational analysis Robert Burden, Julia Burdett	100
Points from the SENCo-Forum What is 'reasonable' progress for pupils?	105
Politics page UK Ruth Germain	107
Book reviews	109

KLA

Special education
Great Britain

Volume 28 Number 2, May 2005

Individual differences in RAN and reading: a response timing analysis Paula Clarke, Charles Hulme, Margaret Snowling	73
A systematic review of controlled trials evaluating interventions in adult literacy and numeracy Carole Torgerson, Jill Porthhouse, Greg Brooks	87
Two Mandarin readers in Taiwan: characteristics of children with higher and lower reading proficiency levels Jia-ling Charlene Yau	108
Effective literacy teaching behaviours Keith Topping, Nancy Ferguson	125
Effectiveness of computerised spelling training in children with language impairments: a comparison of modified and unmodified speech input Dorothy Bishop, Caroline Adams, Annukka Lehtonen, Stuart Rosen	144
Learning when school is not in session: a reading summer day-camp intervention to improve the achievement of exiting first-grade students who are economically disadvantaged John Schacter, Booil Jo	158
Beginning readers' use of 'talking books' software can affect their reading strategies Clare Wood	170
Nonword recall and phonemic discrimination in four- to six-year-old children Jackie Masterton, Veronica Laxon, Emma Carnegie, Sheila Wright, Janice Horslen	183
Book review	202

English

Reading
Literacy
English language teaching

Selected papers
The effects of primary to secondary school transition on student outcomes Linsey Atkins, Sabine Wingenfeld, Lyn Littlefield	11
Predictors of career decidedness: the influence of adaptive change processes and support factors in senior secondary students – a preliminary test model Terry Bowles, Tarryn Godfrey	31
Boys will be boys? Empathy and the relationship between gender and aggression Tessa Bretag, Graham Tyson, Diane Szarkowicz	41
Misdiagnosis of ADHD in school-aged child with conduct and communication difficulties: a case study of a successful non-verbal behavioural intervention Larry Cashion	60
'Is there a problem or is he just bone lazy?' A study of children with low academic motivation Linda Gilmore, Gillian Boulton-Lewis	108
The measurement of self-regulation from ages 2 to 8 Linda Gilmore, Monica Cuskelly	113
Prejudices in Australian adolescents: factors associated with individual differences Julie Robinson, Sophie Guy	278
Adaptation to chronic physical conditions: why should we ask the children, and how? Rosalyn Shute	293
Developing excellence in teaching: from making it through the first day to making a real difference Eleanor Wertheim	367
Adolescent understandings of refugees: the role of social identity and intergroup contact Jodi Worboys, Gail Moloney	382

KLA

Australia
New Zealand
Psychology