This report describes the accomplishments of the National Adult Literacy Project, funded by the National Institute of Education from September 1983 to March 1985 as part of the Adult Literacy Initiative. The project's goal--to assemble and report current information on literacy issues--was achieved through three component efforts: information…

This review of the literature on consultation in heterogeneous classrooms provides first, an overview of consultation; second, a description of school-based consultation; third, a research synthesis of exemplary studies of school-based consultation; and, finally, suggestions for future research and implications for practice. (Author/DB)

This book contains four papers commissioned by the National Center on Employment Policy to review programs conducted by the Office of Policy, Evaluation, and Research in the Labor Department's Employment and Training Administration. The Council's policy statement entitled "Appraising Employment and Training Research" appears first. In…