JOURNALS PRIMARILY PUBLISHED FOR TEACHERS

American Educator

American Educator is a monthly journal published by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). It covers current issues in education, and frequently publishes topical articles about literacy teaching and learning.

Educational Leadership

Educational Leadership, a magazine for educators by educators, is ASCD's flagship publication. With a circulation of 175,000, Educational Leadership is acknowledged throughout the world as an authoritative source of information about teaching and learning, new ideas and practices relevant to practicing educators, and the latest trends and issues affecting prekindergarten through higher education. Educational Leadership is frequently recognized by such organizations as the Association for Educational Publishing and the Society of National Association Publications for its insightful perspectives, balanced coverage of issues and topics in education, and excellence of design and layout.

Elementary School Journal

Founded in 1900, The Elementary School Journal is designed to serve both the researcher and the practitioner in elementary and middle school education. While exploring central problems in education theory, the Journal also explores the complex problems of the classroom. In addition, ESJ presents articles that relate the latest research in child development, cognitive psychology, sociology, and anthropology to school learning and teaching.

English Journal
English Journal is a journal of ideas for English language arts teachers in junior and senior high schools and middle schools. EJ presents information on the teaching of writing and reading, literature, and language. Each issue examines the relationship of theory and research to classroom practice and reviews current materials of interest to English teachers, including books and electronic media.

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy is the only peer-reviewed literacy journal published exclusively for teachers of adolescents and adult learners. With each issue, JAAL gives you the practical solutions you need to overcome your toughest classroom challenges. Newly refocused and revitalized, JAAL offers authoritative, classroom-tested advice grounded in sound research and theory.

Journal of Curriculum and Supervision

The Journal of Curriculum and Supervision is a refereed scholarly journal that provides a forum to examine, inform, and debate curriculum and supervision policies and other issues related to teaching, learning, and leadership.

Language Arts
Language Arts is a professional journal for elementary and middle school teachers and teacher educators. It provides a forum for discussions on all aspects of language arts learning and teaching, primarily as they relate to children in pre-kindergarten through the eighth grade. Issues discuss both theory and classroom practice, highlight current research, and review children's and young adolescent literature, as well as classroom and professional materials of interest to language arts educators.

Library Journal

The single-most comprehensive publication in the field, Library Journal delivers the groundbreaking features, news, technology, and analysis you need, along with nearly 7000 book reviews and hundreds of reviews of audio books, videos, databases, systems, and software 20 times a year.

Phi Delta Kappan

Phi Delta Kappan, the professional print journal for education, addresses policy issues for educators at all levels. Advocating research-based school reform, the Kappan provides a forum for debate on controversial subjects. Published since 1915, the journal appears monthly September through June.

Reading Online

Reading Online is an electronic journal of classroom literacy practice and research for K-12 educators. A special mission of ROL is to support professionals as they begin to integrate digital and networked technologies within their classrooms, preparing students for their literacy futures.ROL was created as an interactive journal, not an electronic version of a traditional print publication. It provides opportunities for dialogue between and among contributors and readers while delivering information in new formats that expand upon our understanding as readers, teachers, and learners.

School Library Journal
School Library Journal (SLJ) serves librarians who work with students in school and public libraries. The largest and most authoritative reviewer of children's and young adult content in the world-principally books, but also including audio, video, and the web-the magazine provides its 38,000 subscribers with the indispensable information they need to make their purchasing decisions. SLJ's news, features, columns, and departments deliver to its readers the perspective, resources, and leadership skills they need to be indispensable players in schools and libraries.

Teaching Exceptional Children

Teaching Exceptional Children, an official publication of the Council for Exceptional Children, is published specifically for teachers and administrators of children with disabilities and children who are gifted. TEC features practical articles that present methods and materials for classroom use as well as current issues in special education teaching and learning. TEC also brings its readers the latest data on technology, assistive technology, and procedures and techniques with applications to students with exceptionalities. The focus of its practical content is on immediate application.

TESOL Quarterly
Whether you are trying to make a difference in the lives of your students, teaching newcomers to the field to be the best they can be, or conducting research in the field of ESL/EFL, TESOL connects you to a global community of professionals teaching English as a second or other language.

The Booklist-ALA

The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

The Horn Book

The Language and Literacy Spectrum

The Language and Literacy Spectrum is published annually by the New York State Reading Association (NYSRA). Subscriptions to the journal are granted as part of the membership fees for members in the New York State Reading Association.

The Reading Teacher

The Reading Teacher (RT) is a journal for those involved with literacy education of children to the age of 12. A peer-reviewed, professional journal published eight times yearly, RT gives thoughtful consideration to practices, research, and trends in literacy education and related fields.The Reading Teacher will help you identify the most effective classroom-tested instructional techniques, gain insights and understanding about reading research and its application to classroom reading instruction, develop strategies to help struggling learners succeed, define the role of educational technology in the teaching of literacy, and much more!

Young Children

Young Children is a peer reviewed journal (published by NAEYC) featuring the latest in early childhood research, theory and practice

JOURNALS PRIMARILY PUBLISHED FOR RESEARCHERS

American Educational Research Journal

American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) has as its purpose to publish original empirical and theoretical studies and analyses in education. The editors seek to publish articles from a wide variety of academic disciplines and substantive fields. They are looking for contributions that are significant to the understanding and/or improvement of educational processes and outcomes.

Applied Linguistics

Applied Linguistics publishes research into language with relevance to real world problems. It promotes principled and multidisciplinary approaches to research on language-related concerns in the various fields encompassed by applied linguistics. The journal is keen to help make connections between fields, theories, research methods, and scholarly discourses, and welcomes contributions which critically reflect on current practices in applied linguistic research. It promotes scholarly and scientific discussion of issues that unite or divide scholars in applied linguistics. The journal also reviews new publications in the multidisciplinary field of Applied Linguistics.

Applied Psycholinguistics

Applied Psycholinguistics publishes original research papers on the psychological processes involved in language. It examines language development and disorders in adults and children with and without developmental disabilities. Articles in Applied Psycholinguistics address the nature, acquisition, and impairments of language expression and comprehension, including writing and reading. This journal gathers together the best work from a variety of fields including linguistics, psychology, reading, education, language learning, sociology, speech and hearing, and neurology. In addition, issues include reviews of important new books, problem-oriented reviews of important or emergent areas, discussions of previously published papers, and methodological notes.

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Contemporary Educational Psychology publishes articles that involve the application of psychological theory and science to the educational process. Of particular relevance are descriptions of empirical research and the presentation of theory designed to either explicate or enhance the educational process. In addition, reviews of educational research are encouraged if the research being reviewed involves the application of psychological science to an important educational issue.

Curriculum Inquiry

Curriculum Inquiry , one of the leading international education journals, is devoted to the study of educational research, development, evaluation, and theory. Each volume brings together influential academics and researchers from around the world and from a diversity of disciplines. These contributors provide expert commentary and lively debate, exploring important ideas, issues, trends, and problems in education. Critically analytical and provocative editorials accompany each issue.

Early Childhood Research Quarterly
Early Childhood Research Quarterly is the scholarly journal of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). For the past fifteen years, Early Childhood Research Quarterly has influenced the field of early childhood development and education through the publication of work that meets the highest standards of scholarly and practical significance. Its articles challenge readers to change the way they think about some of the most critical issues of our time: violence in young children's lives, the role of culture in early childhood programs, professional development in the field of early childhood care and education, effective curriculum and teaching strategies for the primary grades, outcomes of early childhood care and education programs, and the effects of public policies on young children's development. These types of socially and educationally relevant topics are the focus of current and future issues of ECRQ, and to strengthen the links between research and practice, ECRQ features "Practitioner Perspectives," commentaries on ECRQ published research by teachers, program directors, and policy makers.

Elementary School Journal

Founded in 1900, The Elementary School Journal is designed to serve both the researcher and the practitioner in elementary and middle school education. While exploring central problems in education theory, the Journal also explores the complex problems of the classroom. In addition, ESJ presents articles that relate the latest research in child development, cognitive psychology, sociology, and anthropology to school learning and teaching.

Exceptional Children

Insightful, pioneering research, topical issues, and broad perspectives by leaders in the field for more than 65 years have made Exceptional Children the most respected scholarly journal in special education. This peer review journal publishes original research on the education and development of toddlers, infants, children, and youth with exceptionalities and articles on professional issues of concern to special educators. EC is an official quarterly publication of The Council for Exceptional Children.

Harvard Educational Review

The Harvard Educational Review is a scholarly journal of opinion and research in education. Its mission is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussion and debate about education's most vital issues. Since its founding in 1930, the Review has become one of the most prestigious journals in education, with circulation to policymakers, researchers, administrators, and teachers.

Journal of Educational Psychology

The main purpose of the Journal of Educational Psychology is to publish original, primary psychological research pertaining to education across all ages and educational levels. A secondary purpose of the Journal is the occasional publication of exceptionally important theoretical and review articles that are pertinent to educational psychology.

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General publishes articles describing empirical work that bridges the traditional interests of two or more communities of psychology. The work may touch on issues dealt with in JEP: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, JEP: Human Perception and Performance, JEP: Animal Behavior Processes, or JEP: Applied, but may also concern issues in other subdisciplines of psychology, including social processes, developmental processes, psychopathology, neuroscience, or computational modeling. Articles in JEP: General may be longer than the usual journal publication if necessary, but shorter articles that bridge subdisciplines will also be considered.

Journal of Learning Disabilities

The Journal of Learning Disabilities provides a medium for the exchange of best practice, knowledge and research between academic and professional disciplines from education, social and health settings to bring about advancement of services for people with learning disabilities.

Journal of School Psychology

The Journal of School Psychology publishes original articles on empirical research and practice relevant to the development of school psychology as both a scientific and an applied speciality. JSP reflects research on psychometrics and instrumentation, quantitative approaches to inquiry, and a focus on theoretically-grounded intervention and consultation practices. The Journal also reviews tests, books, and other professional materials of interest to school psychologists.

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy
The Journal of Early childhood Literacy is a peer-reviewed journal that serves as a research publication forum for studies within the field of early childhood literacy, publishing relevant contributions in English from researchers in all countries and in all disciplines.

Journal of Literacy Research
The Journal of Literacy Research is an interdisciplinary journal publishing research related to literacy, language, and schooling from preschool through adulthood. Articles published in JLR consist of original research, critical reviews of research, conceptual analyses, and theoretical essays. JLR publishes research concerning all aspects of reading and writing including the interrelationships among the various uses of language that affect literacy. Investigations of the social, affective, cognitive, pedagogical, technological, and political dimensions of literacy are appropriate for publication in JLR. Articles represent diverse research paradigms and theoretical orientations, and they employ a variety of methodologies and modes of inquiry. JLR serves as a forum for sharing divergent areas of research and pedagogy and encourages manuscripts that open dialogue among professionals in a variety of disciplines.

Language in Society

Language in Society is an international journal of sociolinguistics concerned with all branches of speech and language as aspects of social life. The journal includes empirical articles of general theoretical, comparative or methodological interest. Content varies from predominantly linguistic to predominantly social. Language in Society aims to strengthen international scholarship and cooperation in this field. In addition to original articles, the journal publishes numerous reviews of the latest important books in the field.

Learning and Individual Differences

Learning and Individual Differences is a research journal devoted to publishing articles that make a substantial contribution to an understanding of individual differences within an educational context.

Linguistics & Education

Linguistics and Education is an international journal which publishes original research and commentary on all aspects of the use of language in educational institutions and practices. The journal particularly emphasizes contributions with theoretical implications beyond any single specialized subfield of education and contributions which make use of sophisticated methodologies deriving from linguistic analysis or other approaches to the systematic study of language in use.

Merrill Palmer Quarterly

For 50 years, the mission of Merrill-Palmer Quarterly has been to serve as a primary source of new research studies in human development, theoretical papers, critical reviews of literature, and scholarly commentaries.

Qualitative Inquiry

Qualitative Inquiry provides an interdisciplinary forum for qualitative methodology and related issues in the human sciences. With Qualitative Inquiry you have access to lively dialogues, current research and the latest developments in qualitative methodology.

Remedial and Special Education

In Remedial and Special Education, you'll discover the highest-quality interdisciplinary scholarship that bridges the gap between theory and practice involving the education of individuals for whom typical instruction is not effective. Emphasis is on topical reviews, syntheses of research, field evaluation studies, and recommendations for the practice of remedial and special education.

Reading and Writing Quarterly
Reading and Writing Quarterly provides direction in educating a mainstreamed population for literacy. It disseminates critical information to improve instruction for regular and special education students who have difficulty learning to read and write. Interdisciplinary in scope, the journal addresses the causes, prevention, evaluation, and remediation of reading and writing difficulties in regular and special education settings. It encourages manuscripts on teaching the reading and writing processes to students experiencing difficulties in these areas. Possible topics include adjustments for language-learning style, literature-based reading programs, teaching reading and writing in the mainstream, study strategies, language-centered computer curricula, oral language connections to literacy, cooperative learning approaches to reading and writing, direct instruction, curriculum-based assessment, the impact of environmental factors on instructional effectiveness, and improvement of self-esteem.

Reading Research and Instruction

Reading Research Quarterly
Reading Research Quarterly (RRQ) is the leading peer-reviewed professional research journal for those committed to scholarship on questions of literacy among learners of all ages. RRQ supports the spirit of inquiry that is essential to the ongoing development of literacy research, and provides a forum for multidisciplinary research, alternative modes of investigation, and variant viewpoints about the nature of literacy practices and policies of diverse groups of persons around the world. Published four times a year, RRQ is available to individuals as a benefit of IRA membership. It is now also available in an online version at a significant discount to IRA members. And new with the current volume year is RRQ Online Supplements, online-only material that complements and enhances the content of the print journal.

Research in the Teaching of English
Research in the Teaching of English (RTE) is a multidisciplinary journal composed of original research and scholarly essays on the relationships between language teaching and learning at all levels, preschool through adult. Articles reflect a variety of methodologies and address issues of pedagogical relevance related to the content, context, process, and evaluation of language learning.

Review of Educational Research
Review of Educational Research (RER) publishes critical, integrative reviews of research literature bearing on education. Such reviews should include conceptualizations, interpretations, and syntheses of literature and scholarly work in a field. RER encourages the submission of research relevant to education from any discipline, such as reviews of research in psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, political science, economics, computer science, statistics, anthropology, and biology, provided that the review bears on educational issues.

Scientific Studies of Reading

TESOL Quarterly
Whether you are trying to make a difference in the lives of your students, teaching newcomers to the field to be the best they can be, or conducting research in the field of ESL/EFL, TESOL connects you to a global community of professionals teaching English as a second or other language.

Written Language and Literacy

Written Language and Literacy is concerned with (neuro)linguistic, psycholinguistic, educational and sociolinguistic accounts of the structure and functions of written language, the processes and acquisition of reading and writing, and the use and development of literacy in different social and cultural settings. The journal focuses on scientific reports in areas such as (neuro) linguistic and cognitive models of written language processes, reading and writing in educational contexts and in literacy campaigns, literacy and technology, and literacy as a marker relating to gender, ethnicity, and class.

NEWSLETTERS

The Reading Scene

The Reading Scene is a newsletter published four times per year. It is mailed two times per year and delivered electronically two times a year. This newsletter provides information about organizational business such as awards and nominations, legislative initiatives, committee requests, calls for manuscripts, council events, State Education Department updates and so forth. The newsletter is mailed to the membership quarterly. see also the Reading Scene archive