The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is considering the development of a uniform dissemination system. One ED bureau, the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), is more closely tied to medical research and less involved with traditional education audiences, and lessons learned in its various dissemination activities…

This overview of federal dissemination efforts introduces six articles intended to stimulate thinking about certain basic issues of dissemination of education research knowledge and the roles that the federal government can play in that dissemination. Some of the history of federal dissemination efforts in education are traced, especially the main…

This article describes how the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Cooperative Extension Service (CES) might serve as a model for improving the dissemination of education research and development results. After reviewing the distinctive aspects of each dissemination system, various features of CES are listed that might be replicated and others that…

Education 2005 is a report prepared for the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor in the U.S. House of Representatives. This article reproduces verbatim the foreword to that report, written by the subcommittee's chairman Major R. Owens (D-New York). (DB)

These excerpts from "Education 2005: The Role of Research and Development in an Overwhelming Campaign for Education in America" describe the rationale for the report's full recommendations. They include the text and discussion of the particular recommendation for the creation of a research, development, and dissemination delivery system…

This article reviews lessons learned from the agricultural extension model that may apply to the proposed cooperative extension service in education. The agricultural extension model is a user-oriented system linking knowledge producers with other knowledge users. In education, the adopters of innovations may be organizations as well as…