This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 titles deal with the following topics: the relationship of racial integration, auditory discrimination training, and other factors to reading achievement; the relative effectiveness of the controlled reader and the speech compressor in teaching reading skills; variables that discriminate between reading comprehension success and failure for reading clinic participants; the impact of "Sesame Street" on reform in urban schools; improvement of reading comprehension in Title I elementary schools; teacher stereotyping of remedial reading, learning disabled, and normal students; methods for teaching beginning reading to inner-city divergent speakers; long-range effectiveness of a sixth grade remedial reading program; summer correspondence instruction in reading for children with reading deficits; curriculum developmental programs at academic institutions; creative thinking and reading activities for the improvement of reading comprehension; reading attitudes, perceptions, and environments of first grade Follow Through children; and the effects of remedial reading on vocabulary and comprehension of culturally disadvantaged children. (GW)