Jacksonville, Oregon, a mining town founded in a little-known and sparsely settled part of Oregon during the early 1850s, was the focus of a study of the way in which information was distributed and processed in an emerging frontier community. News appeared to be part of the community's institutional structure and to be carried and consumed on two…

This paper reports on an investigation of educator reaction to one state's systemic school reform legislation. Educators have generally been reticent to embrace state-level legislation reform initiatives while simultaneously agreeing with their ultimate goals. Findings are the latest data in a 5-year longitudinal study begun in 1992 that focused…