A Note From the Editor

The affiliation of The Journal of the Learning Sciences(JLS) with the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) is providing this journal with many benefits. JLShas additional subscribers as ISLS gains members (and ISLS gains members through the journal, so it is a productive two-way relationship), and there are more people reading the journal. We are also getting more submissions from outside of North America. The journal has been quite rich in submissions from North America and Israel over the past 5 years, but we have published very few articles from researchers outside of those places. In the past 2 years, since affiliating with ISLS, JLS is beginning to get more submissions from Europe, Asia, and Australia. In this volume of the journal, you will begin to see those articles being published. We are, however, interested in bringing even more international participation into JLS, and we will continue to work toward that goal over the coming year and beyond. One of our colleagues, C.K. Cheung, from the University of HongKong, has done an analysis of international representation inJLS, and we have asked him to refine it as a commentary for the journal. His commentary will appear in Issue 4 of this volume. He points out the lack of international participation and suggests some reasons for it. Our editorial leadership group (Editor in Chief, associate editors, and strand editors) will jointly author a response in which we attempt to clarify what we think are the reasons for the disparity and suggest some ways of bringing in a more international presence. In the meantime, we want our colleagues outside of North America to remember that JLSis a venue for publishing your work. Affiliation with ISLS brings another benefit-better access to the community of learning scientists, allowing us a broader set of people to choose from as reviewers, editorial board members, and associate editors. Rogers Hall has completed his term as an associate editor, except for finishing up acting on manuscripts he has been working on up to now; and Yasmin Kafai is taking a year off from new assignments while she serves as President of the ISLS. I am delighted to introduce you to three new associate editors: David Hammer, from the University of Maryland; Jeremy Roschelle, from SRI International; and Iris Tabak, from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Between them, they bring expertise in cognitive, sociocognitive, and cultural approaches to learning; design experiments as we