Tables of contents

Early years education and care: three agendas

     Brenda Taggart

619 

Building social capital in early childhood education and care: an Australian study

     Ann Farrell, Collette Tayler & Lee Tennent

623 

Implementing the foundation stage in reception classes

     Carol Aubrey

633 

Developing the spoken language skills of reception class children in two multicultural, inner-city primary schools

     Jeni Riley, Andrew Burrell & Bet McCallum

657 

Using baseline assessment data to make international comparisons

      Peter Tymms, Christine Merrell & Paul Jones

673 

The impact of pre-school on young children's cognitive attainments at entry to reception

     Pam Sammons, Karen Elliot, Kathy Sylva, Edward Melhuish, Iram Siraj-Blatchford & Brenda Taggart

691 

Researching pedagogy in English pre-schools

     Iram Siraj-Blatchford & Kathy Sylva

713 

Placing the child in childhood

     Helena Mitchell & Mary Wild

731 

The First Days of School in the Classrooms of Two More Effective and Four Less Effective Primary-Grades Teachers

     Catherine M. Bohn, Alysia D. Roehrig & Michael Pressley

269 

Effects of Two Tutoring Programs on the English Reading Development of Spanish-English Bilingual Students

     Carolyn A. Denton, Jason L. Anthony, Richard Parker & Jan E. Hasbrouck

289 

Inclusive Teachers' Attitudes toward Their Students with Disabilities: A Replication and Extension

     Bryan G. Cook

307 

Primary-Grade Teachers' Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Attitudes toward Teaching, and Discipline and Teaching Practice Priorities in Relation to the Responsive Classroom Approach

     Sara E. Rimm-Kaufman & Brook E. Sawyer

321 

Patterns that Connect: Rethinking our Approach to Learning, Teaching and Curriculum

     Jeffrey W. Bloom

 5 

Does an Outcome-Based Curriculum Provide Opportunities for Gifted Students? Reflections on the new Queensland Science Curriculum

     Carmel M. Diezmann & James J. Watters

27 

What do Communicative Foreign Language Teachers do? Comparing Communicative and Non-Communicative Approaches in US Middle School Classrooms

     Jonita Stepp-Greany

45 

Multimedia Interactive Pedagogies on a CD-ROM for Teaching Primary School Children about the Human Body

     Juliette D. G. Goldman & Geraldine Torrisi-Steele

57 

Successful Urban School Reform for Marginalized Groups - a Case Comparison

     Aram Ayalon

83 

Partnership Programs in U.S. Schools: Their Development and Relationship to Family Involvement Outcomes

     Steven B. Sheldon & Frances L. Van Voorhis

125 

Improving Schools in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Areas - A Review of Research Evidence

     Daniel Muijs, Alma Harris, Christopher Chapman, Louise Stoll & Jennifer Russ

149 

The Effects of Student Composition on School Outcomes

     Richard Harker & Peter Tymms

177 

Values Orientations of Hong Kong's Reform Proposals

     Fok Shui Che

201 

Teacher-Mediated Versus Computer-Mediated Storybook Reading to Children in Native and Multicultural Kindergarten Classrooms

     Eliane Segers, Lianne Takke & Ludo Verhoeven

215