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

Communications Features

Bridging the Gap Between Early Childhood Education and Primary Education
Mary Jean Le Tendre

Moving from Traditional Power Bases to a Proactive Agenda: Implications for Title I
Judith McDonald

School Support Teams: Building State Capacity for Improving Schools
Shelley H. Billig, Suzanne Perry, and Nancy Pokorny

Case Studies

Connecting School-Based Management and Instructional Improvement: A Case Study of Two ATLAS Schools.
David A. Squires and Robert D. Kranyik

Urban School Reform: Student Response to Detracking In A Racially Mixed High School
Robert Cooper

Research Articles

What Makes the Difference in School Improvement? An Impact Study of Onward to Excellence in Missisippi Schools
James W. Kushman and Kim Yap

Implementation Fidelity in Title I Schoolwide Programs
Dianne L. Taylor and Charles Teddlie

Mathematics Attribution Differences by Ethnicity and Socio-Economic Status
Edward S. Mooney and Carol A. Thornton


Book Reviews

Restructuring Schools for Linguistic Diversity: Linking Decision Making to Effective Programs
, by O. B. Miramontes, A. Nadeau, and N. L. Commins
Pedro Paz

The Role of State Departments of Education in Complex School Reform, by Susan Lusi
Chris Pipho

Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform, by Jean Anyon
Erskine S. Dottin

Common Purpose: Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods To Rebuild America, by Lisbeth B. Schorr
Sylvan Alleyne

The School to Work Revolution
, by Lynn Olson
Susan Yonezawa and Tiffany Thornton

Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk
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