SHARON L. SILVERMAN is former director of the Learning Assistance Center and has taught in the School of Education at Loyola University. She currently teaches in the developmental studies graduate program at National-Louis University in Chicago.

MARTHA E. CASAZZA is director of the developmental studies graduate program in the Adult Education Department at National-Louis University. She served as president of the National Association for Developmental Education in 1999.Both authors were Fulbright Senior Scholars at the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa during the 1999 academic year.