An account of the sessions of the twenty-seventh annual School Vision Forum and Reading Conference is included in this issue. Contents consist of the reports of the following sessions: A School Program Focused on Learning Rather Than Teaching; What Psychologists Can Contribute to Educators and Optometrists; Perceptual Clairvoyance; Empowering the Mind through Reading; Making Children's Literature Work; Promoting Child Success: A Discussion; and Right to Read and Parental Involvement. Four additional articles explore the following topics: urging creative writing for children, sex stereotyping in the classroom, leveled study guides, and encouraging independent reading with young children. Remarks by Nila Banton Smith at the ground-breaking ceremony of the new International Reading Association headquarters building and an editorial sketch, "Who Is Too Old to Learn Is Too Old to Teach," conclude the issue. (JM)