The article describes a collaborative program, developed by a teacher preparation institution and a school system to respond to legislative demands, which incorporates current research, clinical supervision tecnhniques, school-based support systems, and collaboratively-developed inservice. (CB)

Discusses Direct Instruction (DI), its rationale, principles of curricular design, and presentation techniques. Presents research on the effectiveness of DI with disadvantaged and handicapped learners. Also offers criticisms of DI. (RAE)

A 50-minute AIDS lesson plan, designed and integrated with extant health education guidelines, was successfully field-tested. The study concluded that after one hour of AIDS education, significant learning outcomes occurred. The lesson plan, as well as methodology and results, is discussed. (Author/JL)

Portland State University's Cooperative Professional Education Program offers an internship which combines coursework and clinical experiences for teacher education students with extension to beginning teacher placements. (CB)

Argues that cognitive reductionism--seeking singular, unitary cognitive explanations for broad ranges of poor school performance--is an inadequate and culturally biased approach to the study of remedial writers. Surveys different approaches to cognition, and notes problems in applying these theories to the thought processes of poor writers. (MM)

Discusses the process-response model (PRM) in its theoretical and practical forms. Describes how geologists attempt to reconstruct the process from the response (the geologic phenomenon) being studied. (TW)

Argues that the tests used to measure reading achievement do not reflect recent advances in the understanding of the reading process, and that effective instruction best can be fostered by resolving the discrepancy between what is known and what is measured. (FL)

Describes a collaboration among policy makers, test developers, curriculum specialists, researchers, and classroom teachers in Michigan that has produced a new interactive definition of reading, new statewide reading objectives, and efforts to develop statewide tests that are more consistent with current theory and research. (FL)

Describes how expository text structure can be taught to students in fifth through ninth grades by using an adapted version of a process developed by McGee and Richgels. Contains daily lesson plans. (FL)

Finds that current pedagogical emphases on audience analysis and adaptation in the field of technical writing are based largely on classical conceptions of audience and society. Traces the influences of rhetoricians who challenge the classical model as inadequate or inappropriate for contemporary rhetorical situations. (SKC)

To avoid the rejection of research findings, researchers and practitioners should jointly plan and conduct research. The SUPER Project is such a collaborative effort. It connects theory and practice in ways that are most useful to teachers and significant to researchers as they work together and learn each other's priorities. (VM)

Focuses on the positive impact of the professional development model that has evolved from the initial set of principles and practices James Gray laid out for the Bay Area Writing Project at the University of California in Berkeley in l974. (NH)

The role of theory-based research in early childhood special education is examined, including the relevance of such research at different phases of teachers' careers. It is recommended that professional education provide teachers with skills to construct personalized theories of effective educational practices and to evaluate their theories.…

Demonstrates the significance of intertextuality theory to rhetoric by explaining intertextuality, its connection to the notion of "discourse community," and its pedagogical implications for composition. (FL)

Research can strengthen both the Asian American community and community-based service organizations. Academic research can be more valuable to service providers if researchers do the following: (1) define areas of concern; (2) keep research information updated and current; and (3) commit themselves to follow through. (PS)