Examines the relationship between two Chapter I teachers' reader-based beliefs about reading and their instructional decision making that took place as they planned instruction and during actual teaching episodes. Finds that participants' beliefs affected their decision making but that other factors also influenced their instructional practices.…

There's a wide discrepancy between the "state of the art" and the "state of practice" in education everywhere. Inadequate but continuing federal categorical programs are one example of this knowledge/practice gap. Recent Chapter 1 program revisions geared toward involving community agencies and making the total school program a…

Chapter I programs are based on locally identified needs, and projects are developed and operated at the local level to meet each district's needs. A majority of Chapter I programs stress language and math skills, however, there are a wide variety of instructional approaches. This source book relates educational practice to research in school…

Listed in this section are over 100 current (1988-89) research and/or demonstration projects (funded through the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act--Chapter 1 and other sources) in schools and classes for the deaf. Titles and authors of 46 1988 doctoral dissertations are also listed. (Author)

Papers in this collection were commissioned for a conference entitled, "Making a Difference for Students at Risk," to serve as springboards for discussion. Discussions and recommendations from conferees were incorporated into the versions presented in this volume. The two topics that dominated discussion at the conference were: basic…