Seymour B. Sarason is Professor Emeritus of Yale University's Department of Psychology where he taught for forty-five years. He is the founder of the Yale Psycho-Educational Clinic and the author of more than forty books, most of which bear directly on education.Seymour B. Sarason is Professor Emeritus of Yale University's Department of Psychology where he taught for forty-five years. He is the founder of the Yale Psycho-Educational Clinic and the author of more than forty books, most of which bear directly on education.Catherine Compton-Lilly is a reading teacher in Rochester, New York, and a Visiting Associate Professor at Saint John Fisher College. She is the author of Reading Families:… The Literate Lives of Urban Children (Teachers College Press, 2002) as well as several articles and book reviews. She serves on the editorial board of Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research.