This reprint of the January/February/March 2000 issue of the scholarly journal "Reading Research Quarterly" features researchers' responses to questions about what the new millennium will hold for literacy research and instruction. the authors are given an opportunity to imagine, speculate, and predict the future of literacy research, teacher education, the nature of politics, literacy instruction, and children's literacy materials. Following the initial article, "Envisioning the Future of Literacy," by the reprint's editors, articles are: "Literacy Research in the Next Millennium: From Paradigms to Pragmatism and Practicality" (D. R. Dillon; D. G. O'Brien; E. E. Heilman); "Reading Teacher Education in the Next Millennium: What Your Grandmother's Teacher Didn't Know That Your Granddaughter's Teacher Should" (J. Hoffman and P. D. Pearson); "Mentoring and Reporting Research: A Concern for Aesthetics" (D. E. Alvermann and G. G. Hruby); "Snippets: How Will Literacy Be Defined?" (J. W. Cunningham; J. E. Many; R. P. Carver; L. Gunderson; P. B. Mosenthal); "Political Acts: Literacy Learning and Teaching" (A. I. Willis and V. J. Harris); "'What's My Name?': A Politics of Literacy in the Latter Half of the 20th Century in America" (P. Shannon); "The Convergence of Literacy Instruction with Networked Technologies for Information and Communication" (D. J. Leu, Jr. and C. K. Kinzer); "Snippets: What Will Classrooms and Schools Look Like?" (E. B. Moje; L. D. Labbo; J. F. Baumann; I. W. Gaskins); "Looking Back, Looking Forward: A Conversation about Teaching Reading in the 21st Century" (R. L. Allington and A. McGill-Franzen); "Children's Literature and Reading Instruction: Past, Present, and Future" (M. G. Martinez and L. M. McGee); and "Equity and Literacy in the Next Millennium" (K. H. Au and T. E. Raphael). (NKA)