Aim & Scope: The Journal of Literacy and Urban schools is a peer-reviewed publication of the Teaching and Learning in Early Childhood/Elementary Division of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers. This open-access journal publishes research reports, integrative reviews, research articles, critical reviews, research-practice lesson plans, essays, commentaries, children’s book reviews, interviews, letters to the editors, and special theme issues. Scholars, researchers, and teachers who want to publish literacy research and classroom practice with a focus on PreK-Grade 5 classrooms in urban settings. The journal of literacy and urban schools focuses on topics which include culturally relevant pedagogy and texts, urban schools, and a focus on cultural and racial diversity in urban settings. The special theme issues will introduce new paradigms, theories, reexamination of practices, focus on populations rarely discussed within the research literature, and nontraditional learning settings. The research frameworks for this journal include qualitative and nontraditional research frameworks.
Publication Frequency: The journal publishes themed issues twice per year.
Ethics and Timing of Journal: The Journal of Literacy and Urban Schools is not a rapid publication journal. The editors of the journal focus on producing quality scholarship and the process can take on average 1.5 years to publish a manuscript. Authors will receive a decision on their manuscript within 60-90 days of submission. As standard practice, this provides reviewers with 60 days to review manuscripts and editors 30 days to make an editorial decision.
The Literacy and Urban Schools Journal 