Results of this 2-year study of an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII demonstration project indicate that teaching a class of 43 second-grade children from a small rural community in west Texas in large groups is as effective as an individualized approach to bilingual education. (Author/RH)

Describes a rural school system's successful efforts to help second- and third-grade students master basic facts in arithmetic by developing and using audiotaped material for addition and subtraction. Explains the development of the three-phase tapes. Notes the improvement of students' attitudes and the disappearance of finger counting. (SB)

Do variables identified as existing within effective school models relate causally to student achievement? A study attempted to answer this question by manipulating selected school effectiveness variables and teacher behavior and by examining the effects of that manipulation on student achievement. Over a 1-year period, 10 kindergarten through…