Features
Design Tools in Didactical Research: Instrumenting the Epistemological and Cognitive Aspects of the Design of Teaching Sequences
Kenneth Ruthven, Colette Laborde, John Leach, and Andrée Tiberghien 

Matrix Summaries Improve Research Reports: Secondary Analyses Using Published Literature
Linda Reichwein Zientek and Bruce Thompson 

Predictable Failure of Federal Sanctions-Driven Accountability for School Improvement—And Why We May Retain It Anyway
Heinrich Mintrop and Gail L. Sunderman 

Research News and Comment
An Educational Psychology Success Story: Social Interdependence Theory and Cooperative Learning
David W. Johnson and Roger T. Johnson 

Book Reviews
Literacy and English-Language Learners: What Researchers and Policy Makers Should Know

Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners
Lisa Pray and Robert T. Jiménez 

Literacy and English-Language Learners: A Shifting Landscape for Students, Teachers, Researchers, and Policy Makers
Jim Cummins 

A Response to “Literacy and English-Language Learners: A Shifting Landscape for Students, Teachers, Researchers, and Policy Makers,” by Jim Cummins
Lisa Pray and Robert T. Jiménez 

A Response to “Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners,” by Lisa Pray and Robert T. Jiménez
Jim Cummins 

AERA Highlights
From the Desk of the President: Complex Ecologies in a Changing World and the 2010 Annual Meeting
JEBS Call for Editors
World Education Research Association Founded
Interim Officers Elected by World Education Research Association
Emerging Scholars Learn About Writing Op-Eds
AERA Holds First Education Research Training Workshop for Undergraduate Students
Call for Nominations for 2010 AERA Fellows
AERA 2010 Awards Call for Nominations
AERA Grants Program Awards, 2008–2009
Call for Applications for AERA Grants Program
Council Minutes, January 30–February 1, 2009 

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