Tables of contents

Partnerships for literacy: principles and practices

From the Editor 

Katharine G Butler, Nickola Wolf Nelson

1 

Foreword 

Froma P Roth, Diane R Paul

2 

Principles and challenges for forming successful literacy partnerships 

Diane R Paul, Jean Blosser, Melissa D Jakubowitz

5 

Collaborative efforts to promote emergent literacy and efficient word recognition skills 

Froma P Roth, Gary A Troia

24 

Partnerships to support reading comprehension for students with language impairment 

42 

Partnerships for literacy in a writing lab approach 

Nickola Wolf Nelson, Adelia M Van Meter

55 

Assistive technology and literacy partnerships 

Yvonne Gillette

70 

Features

How should research contribute to instructional improvement? 

Catherine Lewis, Rebecca Perry, Aki Murata

3 

Scaling-up exemplary interventions 

Sarah-Kathryn McDonald, Vanessa Ann Keesler, Nils J Kauffman, Barbara Schneider

15 

Research comments and news

Reclaiming education's doctorates: a critique and a proposal 

Lee S Shulman, Chris M Golde, Andrea Conklin Bueschel, Kirsten J Garabedian

25 

Books reviews

Hate speech and academic freedom in the academy 

William G Tierney

33

AERA highlights 

From the desk of the president

38 

Classifieds 

40 

Number concepts with number worlds: thickening understandings

Peter Liljedahl, Nathalie Sinclair, Rina Zazkis

253

Students, mathematics, and technology: assessing the present – challenging the future

P Galbraith

277

Observing student working styles when using graphic calculators to solve mathematics problems

J Berry, E Graham, A Smith

291

A mathematical model of bio-economic harvesting of a nonlinear prey–predator system

Tapan Kumar Kar

309

A magnet spring model

T H Fay, L Mead

321

The equivalence between (AB)†=B†A† and other mixed-type reverse-order laws

Yongge Tian

331

Generating sums of series using simple differential operators

Paul Glaister

341

Integration, continuity and a connection with probability density functions

M Samuels

349

Quantiles for finite mixtures of normal distributions

Mezbahur Rahman, Rumanur Rahman, Larry M Pearson

352

On the well-definedness of the order of an ordinary differential equation

David E Dobbs

358

A power series expansion and its applications

Hongwei Chen

362

Piecewise linear integral-preserving approximations of functions

Jiu Ding, Ningjun Ye

369

The mode of a probability mass function

D S Broca

376

Integrating ancient Nanyin music within an interdisciplinary and national education school-wide curriculum: an Australian-Singaporean collaborative arts education project

Samuel Leong

Information communication technologies as a tool for re-imagining music education in the 21st century

Jonathan Savage

Risking aesthetic reading

Patricia E Calderwood

The use of Tetrads in the analysis of Arts based media

Peter Gouzouasis, Anne-Marie LaMonde

Flyboy: using the Arts and theatre to assist suicidal adolescents

Carol A Mullen, Margie Buttignol, C T Patrick Diamond

Epiphamania

J M Burke, K A Cuilla, A G Winfield, L E Eaton, A V Wilson

My arts-informed narrative inquiry into homophobia in elementary schools as a supply teacher

D Gosse

Experiences of artists and artist-teachers involved in teacher professional development programs

R Upitis

Implications for music educators of an interdisciplinary curriculum

G Cosenza

Musical ways of knowing: A personal approach to qualitative inquiry in education

C McMillan

Twenty-nine world premiers in two hours: the story of Powerplus

S Pitts

From image to text: Using images in the writing process

N Andrzejczak, G Trainin, M Poldberg

Responses of young children to contemporary art exhibits: The role of artistic experiences

A Savva, E Trimis

Drawing on diversity in the arts education classroom: Educating our new teachers

K Veblen, C Beynon, S Odom

Making sense of ‘making special’: Art and intimacy in musical lives and educational practice. An essay review of E Dissanayake (2000). Art and intimacy: how the arts began. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press

L Custodero

That thing you do! compositional processes of a rock band

S G Davis

Remaking the educational imagination

N Paley, J Crawford, K Kinney, D Koons, J Seo

Book reviews

Book reviews

Sheelagh Chadwick