We have added two series of publications to the NIFDI Research web page. The first is NIFDI White Papers, which provide summaries of the literature related to Direct Instruction and analysis and commentary on contemporary issues in education. They can be found at http://nifdi.org/research/recent-research/whitepapers. The second is a group of subject area bibliographies, several of which include extensive abstracts (http://nifdi.org/research/di-bibliographies/subject-area-bibliographies). We are also in the process of adding a large number of abstracts of articles related to Reading Mastery to our searchable data base.
Also of note, the Education Consumers Foundation recently released an important policy paper on the key role of teacher training in educational reform: http://education-consumers.org/misdirected-teaching-failed-reform. Authored by Dr. John Stone, the paper analyzes the way in which higher education, by promoting theories with little any empirical evidence, has harmed generations of school children. We found the argument compelling and think that many of you will as well.