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.