This book shows, in detail and with concrete examples, how educational theory and research can be translated into practice. Well-known researchers who have worked to establish productive, sustainable connections between the knowledge produced by the rese Preface ix List of Contributors xiii I: TRANSLATION OF RESEARCH AND THEORY IN CONTENT AREAS AND SKILL DOMAINS Commentary 1(104) Mark Constas and Robert Sternberg 1 Notes on the Educational Steeplechase: Hurdles and Jumps in the Development of Research-Based Mathematics Instruction 9(22) Alan H. Schoenfeld 2 The Application of Theory to the Design of Innovative Texts Supporting Science Instruction 31(22) Shirley U. Magnusson and Annemarie Palincsar 3 Scaling Research on Beginning Reading: Consensus and Conflict 53(24) Jack M. Fletcher, Barbara R. Foorman, Carolyn A. Denton, and Sharon Vaughn 4 Learning to Do Educational Research 77(28) Robert C. Calfee, Roxanne Greitz Miller, Kim Norman, Kathy Wilson, and Guy Trainin II: TRANSLATION OF THEORY AND RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE IN LARGE-SCALE REFORM Commentary 105(92) Mark Constas and RobertJ. Sternberg 5 Translating Research Into Widespread Practice: The Case of Success for All 113(14) Robert E. Slavin 6 Accelerated Schools and the Obstacles to School Reform 127(24) Christine Finnan and Henry M. Levin 7 Translating Theory and Research Into Practice Through the Yale Child Study Center School Development Program 151(22) James P. Comer and Edward T. Joyner 8 The School of the 21st Century 173(24) Edward Zigler and Matia Finn-Stevenson III: TRANSLATION OF THEORY AND RESEARCH INTO EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE TO BUILD INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY Commentary 197(26) Mark A. Constas and Robert J. Sternberg 9 From Molehill to Mountain: The Process of Scaling Up Educational Interventions (Firsthand Experience Upscaling the Theory of Successful Intelligence) 205(18) Robert J. Sternberg, Damian Birney, Linda Jarvin, Alex Kirlik, Steven Stemler, and Elena L. Grigorenko 10 Swimming Upstream in a Small River: Changing Conceptions and Practices About the Development of Giftedness 223(32) Joseph S. Renzulli 11 Multiple Intelligences: Developments in Implementation and Theory 255(22) Mindy L. Kornhaber and Howard Gardner Author Index 277(8) Subject Index 285