Our special issues present current research and timely interventions on key, nationally known programs, research organizations, and developing pedagogical theories, and have addressed such topics as Talent Development, Success for All, Core Knowledge, and the research conducted at national research centers. The enclosed special issue, edited by Elizabeth Kemper and Martha Abele Mac Iver, was inspired by several sessions on Direct Instruction featured at the August 2000 Fort Worth Reading symposium.

JESPAR 7(2) offered a groundbreaking compilation of studies that note the successes and failures of DI in regular-education populations in Broward County, Florida, Houston, Fort Worth, and Baltimore.

   

Editors' Introduction
Sam Stringfield and John Hollifield


Case Studies

Central Park East Secondary School: The Anatomy of Success
Mary Anne Raywid

Ghosts in the Classroom: Unavoidable Casualties of Principal's Commitment to the Status Quo
Betty Merchant


Research Articles

At-Risk Students Attending Second Chance Programs: Measuring Performance in Desired Outcome Domains
Cheryl M. Lange and Camilla A. Lehr

Book Reviews

The Gender Politics of Educational Change, by Amanda Datnow
Janet Chrispeels

Stepping Over the Color Line, by Amy Stuart Wells and Robert L. Crain
Phyllis McClure

Nothing's Impossible: Leadership Lessons from Inside and Outside the Classroom, by Lorraine Monroe
Allen Awaya

Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk
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