Editors' Introduction
Sam Stringfield and John Hollifield

Communications Feature

How Title I, Part A Can Support Technology to Improve Teaching and Learning
Mary Jean Le Tendre

Putting the Pieces Together: The Real Challenge of Improving America's Schools Act
Virginia R.L. Plunkett

Case Studies

Successful Pedagogy in Urban Schools: Perspectives of Four African American Teachers
Grace Cureton Stanford

Carter G. Woodson Elementary School: The Success of a Private-School
Curriculum in an Urban Public School
Barbara McHugh and Susan Spath

Research Articles

Convergence and Divergence in the Process of Academic Development
for Black, White, and Hispanic High School Students
Serge Madhere

Reading Recovery: Long-Term Progress After Three Cohorts
Nancy Baenen, Alissa Bernholc, Chuck Dulaney, and Karen Banks

Book Reviews

The Bell Curve and its Critical Progeny: A Review
Alan Davis

Hope at Last for At-Risk Youth, by Robert D. Barr and William H. Parrett
Maike Phillipsen

Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, by Lisa Delpit
Tyrone Howard