Describes the teacher's center created in the Memphis (Tenn.) schools to provide inservice education on reading instruction. (HOD)

Describes a teacher inservice program designed to help secondary teachers improve reading skills in the content areas. (RB)

Offers a view of literacy within the Australian context and traces the progress of two language and curriculum development projects. (AEA)

Reports that providing inservice training to eighth-grade teachers in Zaire resulted in the improvement of their students' ability to use a text to locate main ideas and supporting details. (AEA)

Describes a staff development program in "action research" in which teachers and administrators investigated how to use reading/writing strategies to improve the learning of at-risk students in the regular classroom setting. Describes a qualitative study of the participants. Describes and compares four action researchers. (RS)