Author concludes that paraprofessionals can be effective in teaching children, and that a participatory educational approach from the bottom up may be much more meaningful than the hierarchical downward oriented bureaucracy. (Author/MB)

The major portion of this report summarizes prior research at the Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching within the framework of three domains of variables: the behavioral or directly observable variables; the personological or those inferred from tests; and those institutional variables which affect the social, technological,…