A Year in Review and a Peek Ahead.

As Volume 76 of Childhood Education comes to an end with this issue, it is a good time to look back at the past year of publishing at ACEI. Our organization remains very fortunate to have so many dedicated professionals who lend their time and expertise to our publishing program. Everyone who contributes to ACEI's publications, whether through reviewing, field editing, writing, or planning, deserves a special thank-you.

New Publications

Over the past 12 months, we have made several new publications available to the education community. We are pleased to be able to offer such quality publications as Resisting the Pendulum Swing: Informed Perspectives on Education Controversies, edited by Mary Renck Jalongo, and Early Childhood Education and Care in the 21st Century, a joint publication with the World Organization for Early Childhood Education. Resisting the Pendulum Swing provides teachers with "a spectrum of information about current controversies so that they would be better equipped to blend action with reflection." Early Childhood Education and Care in the 21st Century presents global guidelines for education developed by a coalition of early childhood educators from around the world.

We also have added two new brochures to our ACEI Speaks series for parents. "Worksheets in Preschool," by Susan Miller and Patricia Cantor, and "Enjoying Humor With Your Child," by Doris Bergen, are both excellent additions to the series, which now includes 14 brochures.

As part of ACEI's mission to advocate for children's well-being, we also have concentrated some efforts toward issuing position papers. "Child-Centered Middle Schools: A Position Paper," by Lee Manning, and "Banning Corporal Punishment of Children: A Position Paper," by Sureshrani Paintal, clearly state ACEI's position on ways to ensure that our children have the most nurturing environments in which to develop.

Planned Publications

We are very pleased with the future outlook for ACEI's publishing program. Beverly Hardcastle Stanford and Kaoru Yamamoto are putting together an edited book on children and stress. Nancy Quisenberry and her colleagues at the Association of Teacher Educators are working on a sequel to Educators Healing Racism. We expect a new publication focusing on family-institution interactions, authored by Cynthia Wallat, to be published in early 2001. Judy Williston and Sue Grossman, two members of the ACEI Publications Committee, are spending the summer developing a book on leadership. In recognition of the great interest in brain research, Doris Bergen is tackling that subject for us. Sandy Stone and Jeanette Allison are developing a publication on multiage classrooms, while Patricia Cantor and Virginia Barry will provide a much-needed publication on infants and toddlers. To address the needs of elementary educators, Patricia Crawford and Kathleen Glascott Burriss are working on adapting and expanding past Focus on Elementary newsletters.

Childhood Education

Plans for Volume 77 of Childhood Education are already well advanced. We hope you will find much to capture your attention and keep you inspired in your work. You can look for articles on dance education, ways teachers can help victims of child sexual abuse, education in Azerbaijan, long-term projects, interactive toys, diversity, multiple intelligences and mathematics, developmentally appropriate practices, and early child care in Japan.

Next volume's Theme Issue will focus on implications of global migration on schooling. The International Focus Issue will take a look at education in nontraditional settings.

Remember that ACEI is a member organization. As such, ACEI publications are your publications. Please forward any questions, concerns, or ideas to the Editorial Department. We will bring your communication to the attention of the Publications Committee, and do our best to respond to your needs.