Describes how a group of professionals at a school near San Antonio, Texas, worked together to change the reading curriculum from a traditional basal reading program to an approach built around quality literature. (SR)

Describes the reading/language arts program at Queen Bee Elementary School (in a Chicago suburb), designated as an exemplary program by the International Reading Association. (SR)

Describes a project in Romania that trains elementary and secondary teachers in folklore and oral history fieldwork methodology, so that their own students can collect materials from their communities that are pertinent to their lives and bring it back to the classroom. Describes successful outcomes from around Romania in the project's first year.…