This reprint of the January/February/March 2000 issue of the scholarly journal "Reading Research Quarterly" features researchers' responses to questions about what the new millennium will hold for literacy research and instruction. the authors are given an opportunity to imagine, speculate, and predict the future of literacy research, teacher…

Presents four brief essays discussing how diversity will affect literacy in the next millennium. Notes competing goals and practices in education that will shape what happens in the next 25 years; discusses tensions in teaching and learning that accompany diversity and literacy; discusses the role of literacy researchers; and offers anecdotes…

Explores reactions among advocates of five distinct political ideologies (conservative, neoconservative, neoliberal, liberal, and radical democratic) to marginalized groups' struggles over the past 50 years for recognition, with specific attention directed toward how these reactions offer different futures in and outside American schools. (RS)

Describes the convergence of literacy instruction with the Internet and other networked technologies for information and communication. Explores consequences including the fundamental changes taking place in the nature of literacy and literacy instruction. Argues that the literacy community must begin to explore these new contexts for literacy and…

Presents 4 responses to the question "What will classrooms and schools look like?". Discusses who will be in these classrooms and what will be taught; three computer-related transformations that will influence schools and classrooms; three issues related to the nature of schools, classrooms, and students' literacy learning; and nine research-based…