Dollar totals of funding for Pell Grants and veterans' education benefits and grants awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, National Air and Space Administration, and National Endowment for the Humanities for research are listed by state or territory. (MSE)

Describes 14 organizations, programs, and research centers studying school communities: Academic Development Institute; Alliance for Achievement Network; ASPIRA; Center on Education in the Inner Cities; Center for Literacy; Center for Research in Human Development and Education; Center for the School Community; Coalition of Essential Schools;…

Introduces a special "Kappan" issue on caring as an identifiable factor in youngsters' environments and interpersonal relationships. Outlines trends and research concerning the caring concept, the family's role, caring's protective dimensions (to combat obstacles such as poverty and family problems), caring environments, and youth…

Years of meticulous research work can be lost when projects are discontinued. Institutional support can make all the difference. The Whitby Research Group coordinates projects, provides access to computers, and enables researchers to share their work in seminars. (JOW)

The use of cluster analysis, a multivariate classification technique, is advocated as a framework to guide the purposive selection of projects for multiple-case study research. A cluster analysis of a contrived data set demonstrates how the procedure is performed, and advantages and limitations are discussed. (SLD)

Discusses the history and current developments of the Biosphere 2 Project, a prototype for enclosed self-sustaining structures for space colonization built in the Arizona Desert. Biosphere 2 was created to educate and provide solutions to environmental problems and revenue from research. (MCO)

This paper proposes the twin themes of prevention and intervention as components of a conceptual framework for determining special education research priorities and developing a coherent research program. Brief descriptions of ongoing programs of research on prevention and intervention from three different research groups are used illustratively,…

The third article in a series of excerpts from seminars sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution on knowledge collaboration focuses on the humanities and social sciences. Reasons for the relatively greater frequency of collaborative research in the natural sciences are examined, and examples of collaborative projects in the humanities and social…

What matters about an educational activity is how learners respond to it. This article examines a program concerned with the learners' needs, through the expression of learners' own meanings, and advances the concept of investigative research as a suitable vehicle for more autonomous learning, through a change in learner status. (26 references)…

Discussed is the question of whether "heavy" neutrinos really do exist based on the evidence supplied by four research groups. The implications of its existence on the disciplines of particle physics, astrophsyics, and cosmology are discussed. Background information on the different types of neutrinos is provided. (KR)

A university's income will rise if it changes its policy on charging for commissioned research and for applications to external funding agencies to one of full cost recovery. However, there are a number of technical and policy implications to be appreciated before embarking on the pursuit of additional income. (MSE)

The Consortium for Gerontology Education in Long-Term Care was designed to share resources among care providers and educational institutions, collaborate on research, and provide training in field methods. Integrating the work of students, faculty, and health-care providers posed challenges requiring trust, communication, and cooperation. (SK)

Reports on searching the data files of the "Memory of Reading" project. Presents images that evoke social memory from reading practices in Brazil. (PA)

Describes the Monarch Watch program that tracks the migration of the monarch butterfly. Presents activities that introduce students to research and international collaboration between students and researchers. Familiarizes students with monarchs, stimulates their interest, and helps them generate questions that can lead to good research projects.…

Examines the methodology and findings of the emergent environmentalism research project as reported in Environmental Education Research v4 n4. Challenges the ontological stance implicit in the research as well as explicit epistemology. (Author/CCM)