Editor’s Message: The Challenge of Change

Acknowledging this final issue of her editorship as “a good bookend” to the first, Beers has turned the issue over to her well-known column editors for one last look at the previous seven years and the implications of change during that time for the future of adolescent literacy. She emphasizes the critical importance of literacy instruction, laments the lack of understanding in so many educational decision makers, and takes a stand for progress through quality teachers, in spite of the obstacles in our path.