Traces the historical evolution of teachers' political involvement and discusses the increasingly active role of teachers' organizations in political struggles affecting education. (JG)

Argues that although today's teachers are better educated than ever before, they also need authority to match their responsibilities, an environment conducive to professional growth, and the support of society. (Author/JG)

Outlines a model for the preparation of preschool teachers that utilizes a preservice/inservice, competency-based approach. (Author/JG)

A summary of the findings of some of the research studies of the characteristics of exemplary schools. (MLF)

Research findings reinforce the relevance to pupil performance of the institutional elements of leadership, expectations, and atmosphere. (Author/MLF)

Three sets of factors that are strongly and consistently productive of academic learning are student ability and motivation, amount and quality of instruction as well as the social-psychological morale of the classroom group, and the educationally stimulating qualities of the home environment. (Author/MLF)

Identifies five approaches to research on teaching, and groups them into primarily quantitative approaches and primarily qualitative approaches. (Author/MLF)

Research linking teacher behavior to student learning is making significant progress in developing a scientific basis for teacher education. (Author)

Student learning in elementary mathematics can be increased by some key teacher behaviors identified by research. (Author)

Direct instruction is more effective for some purposes and students than for others. The approach used should depend on the type of student and the teacher's objectives. (Author)

A six-year study of how teachers affect learning of reading and mathematics provides research evidence to support some old truths. (Author)

Teachers will improve student learning if they attend to allocated time, engaged time, and student success rate. (Author)

Student achievement rose sharply when the West Des Moines schools incorporated the findings of effectiveness research in their teacher evaluation system. (Author)

The Delaware way to improve instruction is to find out what makes high achieving schools effective and then organize an in-service program to help other teachers learn about it. (Author)

A teacher training program includes the production of filmed and taped episodes demonstrating each category of decision in effective teaching and a diagnostic prescriptive observation instrument of the process of teaching. (Author/MLF)