Volume 12

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Effective School Practices, Vol. 12, No. 1 - Winter 1993

Effective School Practices, Vol. 12, No. 2 - Spring 1993

Effective School Practices, Vol. 12, No. 3 - Summer 1993

Effective School Practices, Vol. 12, No. 4/Vol. 13, No. 1 - Fall 1993/Winter 1994

*Note: Beginning with Volume 12, the publication is renamed to Effective School Practices

Focus: Heterogeneous Grouping and Curriculum Design
Research Synthesis: Is Ability Grouping Equitable?
Success Story: What Makes a Pullout Program Work?
The Forgotten Variable: Improving Academic Skills for Students with Serious Emotional Disturbances
Research Study: Remediating Reading and Thinking Skills of Elementary Students
Learning Disabilities: The Changing Landscape
Perspective: When Ability Grouping Makes Good Sense
Business Perspective: What Do We Get For Our School Dollars?
Business Perspective: Human Capital Around the World
News Brief: How the United States Ranks on International Tests of Math and Science
Perspective: Heterogeneous Grouping as a Discriminatory Practice
The Contributions of a Scientific/Business Perspective to Improving American Education
Beginning Reading for At-Risk Students: An International Perspective

From the Field: Oregon Watch
An Open Letter to the Oregon State Governing Bodies
To Superintendent Norma Paulus from Dr. Biglan
Child-Directed Teaching Methods: A Discriminatory Practice of Western Education
Achievement Effects of the Nongraded Elementary School: Summary of A Best Evidence Synthesis
Why Poor Children Fall Behind in Reading: What Schools Can Do About It
Skills and Other Dilemmas of a Progressive Black Educator
The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children
What Does "Developmentally Appropriate" Mean?
Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Appraising its Usefulness for Young Children with Disabilities
Clarifying the Developmental Perspective in Response to Carta, Schwartz, Atwater, and McConnell
Developmentally Appropriate Practice and Early Childhood Special Education: Bridging the Gap
Video Review - The Classroom Cure: A Medical Doctor Shows Educators How to Find What Works/About "Failing Grades": Redirecting Canada's Educational Debate
Influx of Immigrants Changes School Choice in Holland

Overview: Toward World Class Standards
Nongraded Primary: Important Questions and Research-Based Answers
Success Story: A Whole Lotta Learning Going On
Teacher Effectiveness Research: Towards Describing User-friendly Classroom Instruction
New Conceptualizations of Practice: Common Principles in Three Paradigms Suggest New Concepts for Training
Annotated Bibliography of Educational Research Syntheses
Phases in the Development of Meaningful Learning
A New Direction in the Fight Against Educational Discrimination
Charter Schools Offer Another Choice
Appraising Reforms: Working for Better Tools for Better Teaching
Using the Scientific Method in a Japanese Elementary School

A Poem: The Usurpers
Success Story: Direct Instruction Reaches Special-Needs Students
What's Worse: An Evil Conspiracy or a Very Bad Accident?
Sacrosanctity versus Science: Evidence and Educational Reform
Perspective: An Interbehavioral Approach to Teaching and Problem Solving in Education
International: When Will They Ever Learn?
Book Review: School's Out: The Catastrophe in Public Education and What We Can Do About It by Andrew Nikiforuk, 1993
Overview: Beginning Reading Instruction
Success Story: Beginning Reading for Bilingual Students
Romance and Reality
Reading Recovery: Educationally Sound and Cost Effective?
Do Word Processors Really Make Good Spellers Obsolete? No!
Common Reading Problems and Tools to Solve Them
Has Your Child Been Academically Abused in Reading?
International: Reading Instruction in Germany