Assesses the success of UNESCO's International Book Year (1972) and the impact of international cooperation on the encouragement of reading both then and now. (DD)

Reviews Elizabeth Eisenstein's "The Printing Press as an Agent of Change," which documents how print influenced the Renaissance and the Reformation and set the stage for the Age of Science. (AEA)

Reviews materials from the ERIC database describing the variety of functions a high school reading lab can perform and suggesting ways to evaluate student improvement in the reading lab situation. (MKM)

Reviews some theory and research related to metacognition and reading as well as classroom strategies such as generating good comprehension questions during reading, monitoring and resolving comprehension blocks, applying study procedures that increase comprehension and retrieval of information, and adhering to an author's text structure. (FL)

Surveys some of the research concerning underlining and notetaking and draws from it some suggestions for using the two study techniques in the classroom. (FL)

Argues that sensory screening does not identify children at risk for reading or learning disability, and that sensory training does not improve reading or learning. (RAE)

Notes the major historical works or chronicles on college reading and study skills instruction and proposes 10 directions for further historical research. (HOD)

Examines current Adult Basic Education teaching and assessment methods in the United Kingdom and the United States to help define what constitutes success in adult basic literacy tuition. (SR)