Successful elementary and secondary educational reform requires analogous reform in teacher education; however, the standard undergraduate setting in schools of education poses considerable obstacles. In this paper, we describe the STEP environment for distributed problem-based learning (www.eSTEPweb.org), which represents one of many efforts to create a viable model for teacher education refor...

AEL systemic school reform (Mirel, 2001). In the spring of 2001, the fiveyear districtwide initiative requiring all schools to adopt whole-school reform models was discontinued; no Memphis school would be permitted to implement its model in the coming year. What happened in association with the initiative, and what lessons can be learned from the Memphis experience that might benefit all school...