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)

Presents an annotated bibliography of 219 books, articles, and other documents on the teaching of psychology. Also presents 14 references to other annotated bibliographies and bibliographic essays. Includes some citations not listed in previous bibliographies. (CFR)

Describes a model curriculum titled Organizational & End-User Information Systems (OEIS), which emphasizes the need to view technology as a means for reaching organizational goals and maximizing employee performance. Provides educators with an extensive list of textbooks, journals, publications, and Web sites to be used in program development.…

Examines implications of new Web-based technologies for the practice of work-based learning. Highlights include the nature of work-based learning, new technology, a model for a World Wide Web-based learning resource, providing links to learning resources, access to appropriate technology, and cost constraints. (LRW)