MARGARET SUTTON Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana UniversityBRADLEY A.U. LEVINSON Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University

• Introduction: Policy as/in Practice--Sociocultural Approach to the Study of Educational Policy by Bradley A.U. Levinson and Margaret Sutton Global and Nation-State Policy Processes: Sociocultural Studies Are Pedagogical Ideals Embraced or Imposed? The Case of Reading Instruction in the Republic of Guinea by Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt and Ntal-I'Mbirwa Alimasi Linking Research to Educational Policy and Practice: What Kind of Relationships in How (De)Centralized a Context? by Donald K. Adams, Mark B. Ginsburg, Thomas Clayton, Martha E. Mantilla, Judy Sylvester, and Yidan Wang Policy Research as Ethnographic Refusal: The Case of Women's Literacy in Nepal by Margaret Sutton Local Educators Appropriating and Forming Educational Policy Multicultural Curriculum and Academic Performance: African American Women Leaders Negotiating Urban School Accountability Policies by Khaula Murtadha-Watts Teachers' Perceptions of Their Participation in Policy Choices: The Bottom-up Approach of the Nueva Escuela Unitaria in Guatemala by Martha E. Mantilla When Politics Becomes Pedagogy: Oppositional Discourse as Policy in Mexican Teachers' Struggles for Union Democracy by Susan Street Beyond Educational Policy: Bilingual Teachers and the Social Construction of Teaching "Science" for Understanding by Pamela Anne Quiroz Health Education Policies and Poor Women in Brazil: Identifying Myths That Undermine Empowerment by Isabela Cabral Felix de Sousa Community-Educator Negotiations of Policy Meanings and Practice The Impact of Life Histories on Local Policy: New Immigrant Education in the Rural Midwest by Sandra L. Cade "That School Gotta Recognize Our Policy!": The Appropriation of Educational Policy in an Australian Aboriginal Community by R.G. Schwab "We Are Mountain": Appalachian Educators' Responses to the Challenge of Systemic Reform by Maureen Porter Myth Making and Moral Order in a Debate on Mathematics Education Policy by Lisa Rosen Index

MARGARET SUTTON Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana UniversityBRADLEY A.U. LEVINSON Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University

• Introduction: Policy as/in Practice--Sociocultural Approach to the Study of Educational Policy by Bradley A.U. Levinson and Margaret Sutton Global and Nation-State Policy Processes: Sociocultural Studies Are Pedagogical Ideals Embraced or Imposed? The Case of Reading Instruction in the Republic of Guinea by Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt and Ntal-I'Mbirwa Alimasi Linking Research to Educational Policy and Practice: What Kind of Relationships in How (De)Centralized a Context? by Donald K. Adams, Mark B. Ginsburg, Thomas Clayton, Martha E. Mantilla, Judy Sylvester, and Yidan Wang Policy Research as Ethnographic Refusal: The Case of Women's Literacy in Nepal by Margaret Sutton Local Educators Appropriating and Forming Educational Policy Multicultural Curriculum and Academic Performance: African American Women Leaders Negotiating Urban School Accountability Policies by Khaula Murtadha-Watts Teachers' Perceptions of Their Participation in Policy Choices: The Bottom-up Approach of the Nueva Escuela Unitaria in Guatemala by Martha E. Mantilla When Politics Becomes Pedagogy: Oppositional Discourse as Policy in Mexican Teachers' Struggles for Union Democracy by Susan Street Beyond Educational Policy: Bilingual Teachers and the Social Construction of Teaching "Science" for Understanding by Pamela Anne Quiroz Health Education Policies and Poor Women in Brazil: Identifying Myths That Undermine Empowerment by Isabela Cabral Felix de Sousa Community-Educator Negotiations of Policy Meanings and Practice The Impact of Life Histories on Local Policy: New Immigrant Education in the Rural Midwest by Sandra L. Cade "That School Gotta Recognize Our Policy!": The Appropriation of Educational Policy in an Australian Aboriginal Community by R.G. Schwab "We Are Mountain": Appalachian Educators' Responses to the Challenge of Systemic Reform by Maureen Porter Myth Making and Moral Order in a Debate on Mathematics Education Policy by Lisa Rosen Index

MARGARET SUTTON Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana UniversityBRADLEY A.U. LEVINSON Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University

• Introduction: Policy as/in Practice--Sociocultural Approach to the Study of Educational Policy by Bradley A.U. Levinson and Margaret Sutton Global and Nation-State Policy Processes: Sociocultural Studies Are Pedagogical Ideals Embraced or Imposed? The Case of Reading Instruction in the Republic of Guinea by Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt and Ntal-I'Mbirwa Alimasi Linking Research to Educational Policy and Practice: What Kind of Relationships in How (De)Centralized a Context? by Donald K. Adams, Mark B. Ginsburg, Thomas Clayton, Martha E. Mantilla, Judy Sylvester, and Yidan Wang Policy Research as Ethnographic Refusal: The Case of Women's Literacy in Nepal by Margaret Sutton Local Educators Appropriating and Forming Educational Policy Multicultural Curriculum and Academic Performance: African American Women Leaders Negotiating Urban School Accountability Policies by Khaula Murtadha-Watts Teachers' Perceptions of Their Participation in Policy Choices: The Bottom-up Approach of the Nueva Escuela Unitaria in Guatemala by Martha E. Mantilla When Politics Becomes Pedagogy: Oppositional Discourse as Policy in Mexican Teachers' Struggles for Union Democracy by Susan Street Beyond Educational Policy: Bilingual Teachers and the Social Construction of Teaching "Science" for Understanding by Pamela Anne Quiroz Health Education Policies and Poor Women in Brazil: Identifying Myths That Undermine Empowerment by Isabela Cabral Felix de Sousa Community-Educator Negotiations of Policy Meanings and Practice The Impact of Life Histories on Local Policy: New Immigrant Education in the Rural Midwest by Sandra L. Cade "That School Gotta Recognize Our Policy!": The Appropriation of Educational Policy in an Australian Aboriginal Community by R.G. Schwab "We Are Mountain": Appalachian Educators' Responses to the Challenge of Systemic Reform by Maureen Porter Myth Making and Moral Order in a Debate on Mathematics Education Policy by Lisa Rosen Index