Responds to a previous article criticizing the Communication Teaching Project in Bangalore (India). It is suggested that the previous article made false claims about the project and then proceeded to falsify those claims. (Author/VWL)

Reports on a study of the Bangalore Project, an attempt at methodological innovation based on conscious learning strategies. Detailed accounts of Bangalore teachers experiences are analyzed and rated according to defined Levels of Implementation, and the suggestion is made that evaluators of educational innovations must be aware of the necessity…

"Tissue rejection," rejection of an instructional innovation because of poor fit, is analyzed to demonstrate the problematic nature of appropriate information collection and the need for ethnographic "means analysis" to inform project design. Tissue rejection is attributed to informal orders within a host educational environment and communication…