Nearly forty monographs, papers and journal articles are abstracted in this review of recent literature on instructionally effective schooling. The works, most of them published since the mid-1970s, focus on various aspects of urban, minority, and compensatory education, as well as on more general issues in elementary and secondary educational theory and practice. Each abstract contains a summary of the work's basic premises, as well as detailed descriptions of the research and findings discussed. (Author/GC)