This journal issue focuses on cooperative partnership programs for the improvement of educational services to students with disabilities. The eight articles are: (1) "Partner-Based Prelinguistic Intervention: A Preliminary Report" by M. Jeanne Wilcox (which found the intervention procedures had a strong effect on mother-child dyads); (2) "Helping Parents to Help Their Children" by Beth Dohrn, James Bryan and Tanis Bryan (which describes two pilot studies to increase the effectiveness of parent involvement stressing attribution training); (3) "Homework, Grading, and Testing: National Surveys of School District Policies" (Michael H. Epstein et al.); (4) "A Green Mountain Challenge: Assessing the Impact of School Reform on Children with Disabilities" by Pam Kay et al. (a Vermont effort at systematic educational reform); (5) "Partnerships Between Therapists, Parents, and Children" by Mary C. Lawlor and Elizabeth A. Cada (describing a University of Illinois project); (6) "Inservice Programs for Related Services Teams Serving Medically Fragile Children" by Forrest C. Bennett et al. (describing a demonstration project in Oregon and Washington); (7) "From Vision to Reality: The Opened Door" by Ruby Frazier (describing "Projects with Industry" in Lansing, Michigan) and (8) "Effective Consumer-Service Provider Interactions in Vocational Rehabilitation" (Thomas Czerlinsky and Shirley K. Chandler). All articles include references. (DB)