This monograph serves two purposes: (1) to stimulate further reflection and discussion among education leaders and policymakers to revitalize and strengthen the role that school leaders play in school reform; and (2) to assist researchers in identifying areas of future work. It synthesizes some of the most current literature pertinent to…

A graduate course that challenged classroom teachers to make a meaningful connection between the research literature and effective classroom teaching strategies was designed and analyzed. The Tennessee State University course, Advanced Science in the Elementary School, is a team-taught doctoral level course for teachers trained in a hands-on…

Relevant studies from curriculum research are reviewed and presented under the categories of the relationships of research to practice, and the nature of knowledge production and utilization (KP&U). Each of the three topics deal with KP&U in general, related work within education, and work specifically related to the curriculum. (Author/SM)

Much abbreviated version of a paper invited as a contribution representing the field of TESOL to a Conference on English in honor of Albert H. Marckwardt'' offered by Princeton University, May 23-25, 1972. (VM)

Part of a doctoral dissertation submitted at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. (DS)

Authors describe how deficiencies resulting from isolation have been met through the development of an organization called Grand Rapids Public Schools-Western Michigan University Center for Educational Studies. (Authors/MB)

For purposes of this paper, author considers the focal issue to be that of teaching decoding skills and confines her definition of reading to the teaching of only these decoding skills. (Author/MB)

Discusses the relations that administrators and school consultants have among themselves and with their student and community clienteles. (JM)

Questions arising in research and evaluation are more complicated in the area of early childhood education because of the vagaries of measurement with very young children and the occurrence of rapid changes during the early years. (Authors/MB)

Discusses the problems of the researcher versus the researched; the unfulfilled promises of research; the dangers of knowing; the misassessment and misinterpretation of facts by scholars; and, the inadequate research design. (JM)

Depicts the preresearch activities in the completed Project II, one of the Phase One projects in the Targeted Research and Development Program in Reading (TRDPR) sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education. (MB)

Basic and methodological considerations, organizational context of social action programs affect the introduction, execution, and utilization of evaluative research. Tensions between administrators and evaluators, and client activism are two of the problems discussed. (VW)

Proposes that the effectiveness of educational researchers in helping public education to survive will be in direct proportion to their willingness to enter into and maintain new and dynamic relationships with educators who are pursuing this fight for survival. (JM)

Reviews the research on readability, suggests these findings as one basis for curriculum change, and summarizes some of the factors from this research that can make a test more readable. (MB)