Presents an interview with Elizabeth Liddy, president of TextWise, an information access and analytics company. Background on TextWise is provided; advanced search engines are discussed; TextWise products and projects are described; and the changing role of information professionals is considered. (MES)

Discusses the experiences surrounding the application for and reception of federal awards designed to assist new investigators in the transition from doctoral research to building a federally-funded research program. Details the extensive preparation needed to pursue such a grant and outlines the different phases of implementing the research…

Discusses sponsorship by the Library of Congress (LC) for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Digital Libraries Initiative--Phase 2, which is supporting innovative digital-library research and applications. The objective of the multiyear program is to provide leadership in research fundamental to the next generation of digital libraries. (LRW)

When funding for the federal research and development center, which was created to promote improved evaluation in the schools, was discontinued, members and participants in the annual National Evaluation Institute formed a new organization, the Consortium for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Evaluation (CREATE). Interested…

Presents a biography of John Seely Brown, chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Interests include formation of corporate strategy; corporate research, including organizational learning, ethnographies of the workplace, and complex adaptive systems; and human learning and the management of…

Case studies of preservice teacher education in postcompulsory education and of a key skills development project are examples of practitioner-relevant action research. They suggest that further education is not so much underresearched as undervalued, and they fill a need for evidence-based policy and practice. (Contains 35 references.) (SK)

A broad view of mathematics education takes it as the study of how people learn and do mathematics. Starting with this view, the actual and potential relationships of mathematics education as a research discipline to mathematics as a field of knowledge and activity and to the mathematicians carrying out that activity are analyzed. This leads to…

The process of a school becoming more inclusive involves teacher learning. The Economic and Social Research Council Teaching and Learning Research Programme (ESRC TLRP) research and development Network "Understanding and Developing Inclusive Practices in Schools" presented an opportunity both to understand the nature of this learning and…

This is a policy paper in which the author specifically addresses the transitional phase of the REA-APRRE merger. Based on a content analysis of the research directions of the journal Religious Education (English, D'Souza, and Chartrand 2003) and an analysis of research in the cognate area of the social sciences, the author identifies areas that…

The process of a school becoming more inclusive involves teacher learning. The Economic and Social Research Council Teaching and Learning Research Programme (ESRC TLRP) research and development Network "Understanding and Developing Inclusive Practices in Schools" presented an opportunity both to understand the nature of this learning and…

In recent years, universities have become increasingly entrepreneurial as evidenced by their rapid escalation into technology transfer, the process by which university-developed technologies are commercialized. Stimulated in part by a favorable policy environment for patenting and licensing as well as increased competition for limited resources,…

In t his article, the author discusses the role of higher education research and development (R&D)--particularly R&D into the issues and problems that industry is less able to explore. In addition to high-speed computer communication, broadband networking efforts, and the use of fiber, a rich service environment is equally important and is…

The world is increasingly merged into a global market economy, and the government's intervention power in economy has rapidly given way to that of science and technology. For the world's major economic powers, indigenous technological innovation has become a national strategy for enhancing competitiveness. Investment in scientific and…

Over recent decades there has been pressure on schools and teachers, in England, to transform teachers' working practice by advocating an improved role for teaching assistants. In reforming the workforce, the government also intended to support schools in building the momentum for change, whilst raising standards of pupil achievement and enhancing…

Our project to embed formative student assessments in the Foundational Approaches in Science Teaching curriculum required a close collaboration between curriculum developers at the Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG) and assessment developers at the Stanford Educational Assessment Laboratory (SEAL). This was a new endeavor for each…