After a brief introduction describing the goals and proposed activities of the 3-year Correctional Education Project (which began in January 1975), 10 studies, pulled together by the project and representing comprehensive research about correctional education and systems, are analyzed. (Correctional education is defined generally as the educational programs and processes available to adult and juvenile offenders after adjudication. The term is also used to refer to institution-based education of inmates.) Two kinds of studies are included: The work of five national commissions that looked at a variety of critical issues in corrections, including correctional education; and five published national studies that specifically address issues in either adult or juvenile correctional education. The authors note that because the studies are comprehensive in what they attempt to do, they can be considered seriously by policymakers particularly at the national level. Titles of the studies are "Corrections,""Educational Programs in Adult Correctional Institutions,""GED Testing in State Penal Institutions,""An Evaluation of 'New Gate' and Other Prisoner Education Programs,""School Behind Bars--A Descriptive Overview of Correctional Education in the American Prison System,""Education for the Youthful Offender in Correctional Institutions,""The Criminal Offender--What Should Be Done?""A Time to Act,""State-Local Relations in the Criminal Justice System," and "The President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice: Task Force on Corrections." (SH)