The ERIC Review is published three times a year and announces research results, publications, and new programs relevant to each issue's theme topic. This issue examines education-community-business partnerships via two principal articles: "Collaboration To Build Competence: The Urban Superintendents' Perspective," by Terry A. Clark; and "Higher Education-Business Partnerships: Development of Critical Relationships," by Diane Hirshberg. In addition the following features are provided: (1) Recent Federal Partnership Initiatives; (2) Partnership Resource List, which includes organizations and associations, clearinghouses, and federal agencies; (3) General Reading List, which provides an annotated bibliography of 41 titles; (4) a research article, "School-to-Work Transition: Its Role in Achieving Universal Literacy," by Susan Imel; and (5) an annotated list of 33 new publications produced by the ERIC clearinghouses and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. (ALF)