Abstract

The 2006 Alan C. Purves Award Committee is pleased to announce this year’s recipients’ Sarah Warshauer Freedman, Verda Delp, and Suzanne Mills Crawford, for Teaching English in Untracked Classrooms (which appeared in the August, 2005 issue of Research in the Teaching of English, pp. 62-126). Here, the committee discusses the implications of this work for guiding important reforms in educational practice.