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 SuttonGlobal and Nation-State Policy Processes: Sociocultural StudiesAre Pedagogical Ideals Embraced or Imposed? The Case of Reading Instruction in the Republic of Guinea by Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt and Ntal-I'Mbirwa AlimasiLinking 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 WangPolicy Research as Ethnographic Refusal: The Case of Women's Literacy in Nepal by Margaret SuttonLocal Educators Appropriating and Forming Educational PolicyMulticultural Curriculum and Academic Performance: African American Women Leaders Negotiating Urban School Accountability Policies by Khaula Murtadha-WattsTeachers' Perceptions of Their Participation in Policy Choices: The Bottom-up Approach of the Nueva Escuela Unitaria in Guatemala by Martha E. MantillaWhen Politics Becomes Pedagogy: Oppositional Discourse as Policy in Mexican Teachers' Struggles for Union Democracy by Susan StreetBeyond Educational Policy: Bilingual Teachers and the Social Construction of Teaching "Science" for Understanding by Pamela Anne QuirozHealth Education Policies and Poor Women in Brazil: Identifying Myths That Undermine Empowerment by Isabela Cabral Félix de SousaCommunity-Educator Negotiations of Policy Meanings and PracticeThe 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 PorterMyth Making and Moral Order in a Debate on Mathematics Education Policy by Lisa RosenIndex