Focusing on the importance of the search for meaning in reading, the essays in this book address critical reading and the confusion about the place of skill development in the search for meaning. The following works are included: "Introduction to the 50th Yearbook" (M. P. Douglass); "The Quest for Meaning" (M. Poplin); "Reading and the Role of Imagination: Observations on Meaning, Skills, and the Nature of Knowing" (J. A. Astman); "An Issue of Education Equity: Hispanic School Desegregation and Bilingual Education" (H. D. C. Garcia and M. Noble); "Why Children Can Learn to Read and Yet Comprehend Poorly What Is Read--A Scandinavian Perspective" (M. Jansen); "Curriculum Development and the Quest for Meaning" (M. F. Klein); "The Public School Faculty at Risk: A Renewed Need to Search for Meaning" (M. B. Noble and H. D. C. Garcia); "The Integration of Learning: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Again)" (K. A. Tye and B. B. Tye); "The Development of Belief Systems and Teaching Effectiveness of Influential Teachers" (R. B. Ruddell and R. G. Kern); "A Widening View" (S. Alexander); "Children's Literature and the Claremont Reading Conference" (D. Doherty-Hale); "The Historical Classics of Children's Literature and Basal Readers" (J. Zarrillo); "Childhood and Adolescence in the Experience of Three Irish Men of Letters: Sean O'Casey, Sean O'Faolain, Michael O'Beirne" (T. M. Caughron); "Beyond the Deficit Model of Reading Disabilities" (P. Dewitz); "The Directed Listening-Thinking Approach" (C. DeJong); "A Study of the Effects of Directed Reading-Thinking Activity and Conceptual Mapping on Reading and Writing Exposition" (M. E. Draheim); "Semiotic Meaning in 'The Name of the Rose'" (L. Stokely, Ed.); "A Testimonial on Timed Testing: Developmental Students and Reading Comprehension Tests" (G. Kerstiens); "The Changing Composition of California School Boards" (J. G. Weeres); "A Comparison of the Cognitive and Art Development of Early Readers of Print and Their Yet-To-Read Peers: Grounds for a Broad-Based Learning Environment" (A. A. Armantage); "Communicative Approaches to ESL: A Bridge to Reading Comprehension" (A. N. Crawford); "From Meaning to Reading: Instruction for ESL Readers" (C. N. Dixon); "Integrating Computers and the Writing Process" (R. Souviney and B. Miller-Souviney); "When Good Readers Block" (C. L. Garcia); "The Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy: Implications from Classroom Practice and Research" (M. R. Haggard); "Strategic Competence in Reading: Finding the Common Ground" (R. D. McCallum); "Reading Aloud to Students: Remediation or Foundation?" (D. Michener). Also included is a presentation of the Recognition of Merit Award to Tana Hoban as well as her acceptance statement. (JD)