The November issue of Journal for Research in Mathematics Education has been published, with the following main articles:

• Access to Upper-Level Mathematics: The Stories of Successful African American Middle School Boys, by Robert Q. Berry III
• Mapping Mathematics Classroom Discourse and Its Implications for Models of Teaching, by Mary P. Truxaw and Thomas C. DeFranco
• The Effect of Schema-Based Instruction in Solving Mathematics Word Problems: An Emphasis on Prealgebraic Conceptualization of Multiplicative Relations, by Yan Ping Xin
• Review: A Trio of Strategies for Success: A Review of Mathematics Education at Highly Effective Schools That Serve the Poor: Strategies for Change, by Joanne Rossi Becker