Handing over the Conversation: Our Final Editorial

In this, our final editorial, we reflect back on the goals outlined in our first editorial (October 2010) and what we accomplished in the past five years. Our vision for English Education was "to continue the solid reputation for both excellence and collegiality that has been built over the last four decades" (p. 6). We hope that you, the reader, feel we were successful in meeting this vision.We also wanted the journal "to be seen as a venue for publishing qualitative, quantitative, and multiple-methods studies . . . and we wanted to encourage researchers to think about the many ways we can answer the perennial, and new, questions about English education and how diverse methodological approaches can add to these discussions" (p. 6). We hoped that we would get more of a balance among these types of methodologies in the research published in English Education. Although this goal didn't come to fruition, we did see some interesting articles published in the Rese...