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TABLE OF CONTENTS: APRIL 2007• Volume 88 • Number 8


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 Kappan cover On the Cover: THE RESEARCH/PRACTICE DIVIDE
If you're a practicing teacher or administrator, do your eyes glaze over when the talk turns to research? How about theory? The authors of these four articles, all university-based, want to help create clearer communication between researchers and practitioners -- in both directions.

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FEATURES
Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice: What's Good, What's Bad, and How Can One Be Sure?, by Stephen H. Davis
 
Compliance or Adaptation: What Is the Real Message About Research-Based Practices?, by Gerald G. Duffy and Kathryn Kear
 
Questioning the Core of University-Based Programs for Preparing School Leaders, by Joseph Murphy
 
The Professoriate, the Practitioners, and 'Their' Periodicals, by Perry A. Zirkel
 
Columbus and the Flat Earth Myth, by Mano Singham
 

Why We Can't Always Get What We Want, by Barbara Bartholomew
 

Where Have All the Strong Poets Gone?, by Alan C. Jones
 
George's Complaint: Reforming the Dragon, by Bruce Buxton
 
Why Teacher Networks (Can) Work, by Tricia Niesz
 
The 'New' Science of Networks and the Challenge of School Change, by William R. Penuel and Margaret Riel
 
Finding Meaning and Purpose Together, by Theresa Tribbe Socol
 
What Happened to Social Studies?: The Disappearing Curriculum, by Margit E. McGuire
Accelerating the Learning of Low-Achieving Students:The Transformation of a Dropout, by Christine Finnan and Gene Chasin
 
DEPARTMENTS
 
THE EDITOR'S PAGE, Building Bridges
 
WASHINGTON COMMENTARY, Search and Re-Search, by Anne C. Lewis
 
STATELINE, Making Assessments More Meaningful, by Kathy Christie
 
TECHNOLOGY, Green and Non-Electric Technology, by Royal Van Horn
 
THOUGHTS ON TEACHING, On Silence, Berea College, and Passing the Baton, by Bobby Ann Starnes
 
RESEARCH, Get Rich: Be a Teacher, by Gerald W. Bracey
 
COURTSIDE, Un-Principaled Testing?, by Perry A. Zirkel
 
CHARTS YOU CAN TRUST, Private Colleges Giving More Financial Aid to Wealthy Students, by Kevin Carey
 

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