Diane Lapp, EdD, is Distinguished Research Professor of Language and Literacy in the Department of Teacher Education at San Diego State University, and has taught in elementary and middle schools. Her major areas of research and instruction have been issues related to urban struggling readers and their families. Dr. Lapp directs and teaches in field-based preservice and graduate programs and continues to team-teach in public school classrooms. She has coauthored and edited many articles, columns, handbooks, and children's materials on reading and language arts, and has chaired or cochaired sev...