This theme issue of "Research and Creative Activity" features six articles on Indiana University faculty whose work on various campuses continues to broaden and advance knowledge about "Literacy and Learning". The articles are as follows: "New Ways to Teach Reading" (about the work of John McEneaney, Assistant Professor of Education, in designing computer programs to diagnose reading problems); "The Legal Parameters of Learning" (about the work of Martha McCarthy, Professor of Education, a leading researcher in the study of education law); "Worldwide Literacy: It's a Matter of Time" (about Harbans Bhola, Professor of Education, who brings 25 years of experience to the international literacy movement); "The Gift of Language" (about the cochlear implant work of Richard T. Miyamoto, Chairman and Arilla DeVault Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine); "Assessing Achievement" (about the innovative reading assessment tests developed by Roger Farr, Professor of Education, Indiana University Bloomington); and "Indiana at Risk" (about the efforts of Carlyn Johnson, Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis to remove the flaws in Indiana's school funding sytstem in order to achieve statewide equality of educational opportunity. (SR)