Tables of contents

Theme: closing the achievement gap

Lessons along the cultural spectrum: Educators can build on the variety of cultures and daily experiences to shape students’ learning and development

Belinda Williams

Better by the dozen: 12 under 12 network participants draw strength and encouragement from their shared commitment

Joan Richardson

In one voice: Mainstream and ELL teachers work side-by-side in the classroom, teaching language through content

Priscilla Pardini

Path to excellence: Broad Prize tips

Heather Zavadsky

How one school made the pieces fit: Elementary school builds on a learning community to lift achievement for black students in reading and math

H Marguerite Yates, Vikki K Collins

The Red Folder: Simple tool mixes study, reflection, and planning to help students succeed

Mike Murphy, Monica Arellano, Heather Bryant, Maria Christiansen, Paige Conley, Ann Minnett

Going deep within, to the discomfort zone: St Louis program battles racism by targeting educators’ self-awareness and behavior that can limit students’ potential to achieve

Robert Mai, Deborah Holmes

Winning methods of teachers who close the gap between black and white students

Johnnie McKinley

Features

Five challenges to effective teacher professional development: School leaders can improve instruction by addressing these issues

Ronald F Ferguson

Walk-throughs provide stepped-up support: Edmonton builds a framework of support for teaching and learning to increase high school completion rate

Corrie Ziegler

The civic remit of educational practice in the Republic of Ireland: a review of the potential of service learning

Timothy Murphy

203

University-community engagement in Australia: practice, policy and public good

Alexandra Winter, John Wiseman, Bruce Muirhead

211

Concerned citizens: children and the future

Cathie Holden

231

`We don't learn democracy, we live it!': consulting the pupil voice in Scottish schools

Henry Maitles, Ross Deuchar

249

The do-gooder, the vain, the generous, and moral education

Kristján Kristjánsson

267

Book review: Changing Citizenship – Democracy and Inclusion in Education

Kathleen Lynch

283

Improving teacher recruitment and retention: the importance of workload and pupil behaviour

Patrick Barmby

247

An evaluation of inspection reports on primary school attendance

Ken Reid

267

Issues in synthesizing research in education

Richard Andrews, Wynne Harlen

287

Approaches to studying among Greek university students: the impact of gender, age, academic discipline and handedness

Eleni Andreou, Filippos Vlachos, Georgia Andreou

301

Challenging underachievement in boys

Geoff Lindsay, Daniel Muijs

313

Book review

Marian Sainsbury

333

The 2006 National Technology Leadership Summit

Glen L Bull, Lynn Bell

302

A computer-based instrument that identifies common science misconceptions

Timothy G Larrabee, Mary Stein, Charles Barman

306

State standards and digital primary sources: a divergence 

Adam Friedman

313

Cross-curricular connections: video production in a K–8 teacher preparation program

Leslie Hall, Roxanne Hudson

328 

A deconstructed example of a type 2 study: research to improve implementation strategies 

Margaret D Roblyer

342