The authors, a team of literacy teacher educators who are focused on extending our own understandings of preservice teacher (PST) learning, conducted a cross-case analysis of how PSTs learned to teach literacy in three concurrent practicum experiences. We draw on Grossman's framework of representations, decompositions, and approximations to…

An experiment is described in educational program design involving the use of seventh-grade students in developing and implementing a K-6 cross-grade tutorial/enrichment program in health education. (MJB)

Describes a study that examined the effects of a cross-age tutoring program on computer literacy learning of second graders. Related literature is reviewed; the training program that used fourth graders to tutor the second graders is explained; and implications for future research is suggested. (Author/LRW)

The purposes of the Multiple Activities Program, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, were: (1) to supplement the instructional program for educationally disadvantaged children by developing a curriculum and techniques, specifically in reading, which would raise their achievement level commensurate with their…

The research for this booklet, which was conducted under the label of "The Black Community Schools' Project," had as its main purpose the production of a work which would describe some of the efforts being made by blacks in the area of educating children. The focus is on some of the independent black institutions on the pre-school through junior…

The purpose of the program described in this report was to improve reading and other basic skills of third- and sixth-grade children by providing a program in which sixth-grade children tutored third-grade children. Three classrooms of third-grade children and three classrooms of sixth-grade children were involved in this endeavor over a…

This report identifies programs that have proven to be effective and programs that show potential for improving academic achievement among Latino youth in the elementary and middle grades. It targets programs specifically designed for this population and programs that have worked for all children and that have been disseminated for use with Latino…

The "Preparing Elementary Teachers to Teach Mathematics (PETTM) Project" (1988-1991) was a cooperative university/school effort to improve the teaching of mathematics by elementary teachers with its primary focus on improving the university training of preservice teachers (PSTs) in mathematics. This document, volume III of the project's 5-volume…