FOB has always intrigued me because it's on top of the challenges that teachers and tutors face in classrooms across the country.  Once we were discussing the reasons that students go on or do not go on to other educational pursuits.  Soon I saw that the next issue of FOB would cover "Transitions."  This field is widely diverse and often isolated from each other and from a sense of itself as a field.  FOB is a unifying force as it presents the latest research and relates that research right to the instructional setting. In my job as a state level coordinator, I publicize each and every issue so that practitioners can use the information presented in the articles.  When I survey practitioners about what they need, I always hear, "Something I can use tomorrow."  Well, FOB has always provided just that.

Cyndy Colletti