This is a rationale and description for a dissemination program being developed by the School Practice and Service Division of the National Institute of Education. The document is being circulated to solicit comments on the soundness of the proposed work. The proposed program constitutes a coordinated attempt to make information, products, skills, and resources derived from research and development and exemplary practice available to educational practitioners to facilitate their problem-solving in targeted areas. The program is a venture into uncharted areas in an attempt to build additional linkages between research and development and the operating system. The apparent semiisolation and alienation of the one group from the other has come from a number of causes, including the linear-change model implicit in past federal leadership and policies in supporting educational research and development and dissemination. The proposed goal, objectives, strategies, and underlying assumptions of the program are described, as well as the proposed design, its consumer information component, its research and development utilization component, and its assessment. (Author/IPT)