Includes suggestions for teaching science to kindergarten children. (SB)

Discusses investigations into the ability of students to understand their science texts. Outlines some research, both in Jamaica and Australia, which suggests that there is need for teachers to be concerned about the value to students of some of the written materials provided for them. Contains 21 references. (JRH)

Outlines recent organizational and programmatic changes within the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative, including a data feedback system of institutional indicators; a persistence/completion methodologies dictionary; state information data initiatives; briefing papers; and the maintenance and enhancement of ANSWERS, a Web-based tool that…

Describes the use of portable educational boxes for bringing in educational multimedia on local and regional issues. Highlights programs that use this method. Reports on a nationwide questionnaire for educators that examined the current use of this method. Findings indicate that the use of traveling environmental education trunks was increasing in…

Examines empirical research on school in developing countries. Reports large between-school variance, strong influence of material and human-resource input factors, and limited impact of instructional conditions. Discusses contextual challenges to the school-effectiveness model. Explores the use of the school-effectiveness knowledge base for…

Discusses the need for standardization for learning technologies in computer-based training systems. Highlights include institutions and organizations involved in standardization; a survey of educational metadata; how these data models are applied by actual software systems to facilitate the location of learning resources; and educational…

Describes how elementary school teachers can build classroom libraries of children's literature. Examines several classroom literature sets (collections of children's literature and related materials), focusing on elements of the sets that appealed to and concerned teachers. Recommends ways to evaluate classroom literature sets. (MM)

Reexamines the five criteria for selecting instructional resources: content validity, transfer potential, amount of reinforcement, quality of directions and instructional language, and adaptability and flexibility. Reviews "Listening: The Basic Connection," a listening program for third through eighth grade. (MG)

Reviews "Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print," a book which reviews and synthesizes decades of research on beginning reading. (MG)

Discusses the services that Scholastic Press Associations offer, including: planning instructional meetings and workshops; evaluating publications; publishing helpful magazines and monographs; and recognizing excellence through awards and competitions. (MS)

Identifies pathways to electronic resources on distance education, including the databases of the International Centre for Distance Learning, ERIC, and OCLC First Search; course offerings; gopher sites; and news, organizations, and discussion groups. (SK)

Presents Internet connections appropriate for mathematics education; provides descriptions of ways that mathematics educators can access electronic resources such as e-mail, discussion groups, gopher servers, and transfer of files; and provides hints and examples from classroom connections and professional applications. (18 references) (Author/MKR)

This article contains contact information on several national organizations and projects involved in school reform. Sources are included on professional development schools, cooperative learning, integrated human services, national goals, national standards, teachers as researchers, teacher preparation, school restructuring, and whole language. A…

Discusses six professional resources and three classroom resources that can help practitioners decide what they should be doing and what they need to understand to function in a literature-based language arts classroom. (RS)

Advocates allocating more money, time, and qualified instructors to the teaching of important health issues in health education classes. (SR)