Schools and schooling do more than mirror the society they serve--they mirror the society to be. (MM)

This is a collection of the opinions of several major educational organizations concerning the future of education over the next 15-25 years. (MM)

To respond rationally to the challenges of the next decade, educational practitioners need a solid foundation of professional knowledge. (MM)

Research indicates that teacher effects are detectable and that teachers do significantly influence the academic growth of students. (MM)

Two data-sets were used to assess the relation of teaching performances to pupil learning: (1) direct observations of teaching; and (2) teacher's reports on teaching activities and measures of pupil achievement. (MM)

APPLE is a naturalistic observation system that can describe pupil and teacher behaviors and identify those behaviors that are significantly related to learning for a particular grade or instructional area. (MM)

Total time usage is one of the more fundamental variables determining instructional effectiveness. (MM)

Work diaries and program overviews were used in this study to describe teaching performances. (MM)

Relations between certain cognitive and attitudinal characteristics and the instructional behavior of elementary school teachers are explored. (MM)

In this study, findings consistently support the hypothesis that cognitive style has the most impact during initial learning. (MM)

The first national survey to see how the clinical professorship had been implemented indicated that there was little agreement on the role of the clinical professor. (MM)

This article discusses current problems facing the teacher educator and offers suggestions for needed changes in the field of teacher education. (JD)

The author presents seven premises undergirding the concept of collegiate-based teacher education, discusses ways in which (in practice) those premises are not acknowledged, and suggests ways to improve the preparation of teachers within the collegiate-based setting. (MJB)

If American education is to be improved by increasing the impact of theory and research on schooling, then the initiative for change is going to have to come from the major side of the joint enterprise, schools. (Author)

Interpretation of responses to a national survey on teacher education indicated that goverance, research and development, substantive improvement of schooling, and staff development need to be conceived of as a totality, and dealt with by a cooperative effort by all those involved in teacher preservice and inservice education. (MJB)