Reviews literature concerning underutilization of educational research by practitioners and pros and cons of condensed and synthesized research reports. Proposes a method for research dissemination based on direct mailing of synthesized reports to teachers in response to their requests for specific information. (JHZ)

Included here are eight responses to the Courtney Cazden-Judith Kleinfeld dialogue (Spring and Winter 1983) on the role of anthropology and ethnography in education, and particularly teacher education. Responses touch on training for cross-cultural teaching, change as the status quo in education, and the integration of ethnographic and…

What music research can tell teachers about strategies to use to help students learn to like classical music is discussed. For example, research has shown that music teacher's verbal approval significantly increases students' listening to classical music. Also, choices of musical examples is critical. (RM)

Research on the usefulness of calculators in mathematics instruction is cited, and some activities using calculators to develop skills with reading numbers, counting, basic facts, multiplication and division, problem solving, estimation, percentages, decimals, patterns, probability, and games are described. (MNS)

Describes the growing research base for instructionally effective schools and its importance in helping bring about more such schools. Reports that the research indicates the fruitfulness of stressing instructional leadership, of redefining the teacher's autonomy, of creating a climate of high expectations, of standardized testing, and of…

Empathy is a critical quality to prosocial behavior. Disciplinary techniques that help students from preschool through the high school levels develop empathy are discussed. (RM)

To avoid implementation problems, thought must be given to diagnosis and systematic adaptive planning for the implementation of educational innovations. (MM)

This article is a summary and analysis of four panel discussions conducted at the National Invitational Conference on Research on Teacher Effects, Nov. 3-5, 1975. (MM)

A study examined 20 years of research represented in the National Reading Conference (NRC) Yearbooks with the purpose of creating an NRC Yearbook database. The study analyzed overall trends in research topics and paradigms used by individuals whose work was reported in the NRC Yearbook between 1975-1995. The analysis was guided by the following…

In 1997, The International Bureau of Education (IBE) launched a series of case studies on the processes involved in the use of educational information and research. These studies describe how recent educational research has been disseminated and how educational reforms may have benefited, or not benefited, from insights gained through research.…

This report describes the results from an exploratory project conducted for the National Center for Education Statistics. The purpose of the project was to develop and field test questionnaire items and related methods designed to capture information about the instructional processes used nationally in 8th- to 12th-grade mathematics classrooms.…

Focusing on fertility decline in Southern Appalachia, the article: (1) reviews recent attempts by social scientists to explain the phenomena; (2) indicates explanatory variables not previously considered; and (3) argues that the anthropological community-study approach is one way of investigating these variables. (Author/KM)

Identifies two major problems--first, both the formal and informal communication networks are extremely diffuse; and second, the interval from the start of a piece of research until its integration into the archival body of scientific knowledge is long--and presents some suggestions for alleviating them. (Author/JM)

Discusses two programs undertaken at engineering colleges in an attempt to transmit technology information from the body of knowledge to the potential users, especially small and medium sized companies. Concludes that the university mission can be partly fulfilled through the technology transfer program. (CC)

Author discusses the challenge facing non-urban universities to assume active roles in the development and revitalization of rural life. (Author/MB)