This research bulletin presents six selected papers from the annual conference of the Florida Educational Research Council. The papers are intended to help educators improve the quality of education in their communities. The papers are: (1) "Minority Education Intervention: The Experience of Two Programs with Middle and High School Students and Their Families," by Lee Duffus and Madelyn Isaacs, which discusses the development, characteristics, and assessment of two school intervention programs; (2) "Efficacy of At-Risk Children Teaching Programs," by Carolyn Lavely and others, which reviews the literature concerning programs designed to enhance the educational development of at-risk children; (3) "Measuring Implementation: Tools for Researchers," by Marsha M. Sprague, which outlines investigations into the nature of the implementation of educational innovations; (4) "Mediated Reading Levels of Chapter 1 Third Grade Students," by Sherry Kragler, which examines the placement of children in reading groups; (5) "From the Garden of Academus to Imaginative Planning for Teacher Education," by Carolyn Spillman and others, which considers several current elements in teacher education programs at the University of South Florida and elsewhere; and (6) "The Middle School Instructional Practices Scale," by Roberta Thomas and others, which describes a middle school assessment scale used in the Orange County, Florida, public schools. Reference lists are included with individual articles. (BC)