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E-Newsletter, April 2007
Annenberg Institute Opens Expanded NYC Office
To accommodate our recent addition of staff in New York City from the Community Involvement Program (formerly at NYU), the Annenberg Institute has acquired new office space in the historic Woolworth Building on Broadway in lower Manhattan. The office officially opened on March 1. Personnel in the New York office include Marla Ucelli, Director of District Redesign; Norm Fruchter, Director of Community Involvement; and some 15 staff who support community and student collaboratives working for educational improvement in NYC schools and who conduct research and analysis on the effectiveness of community action for school reform.
> More information on the office and staff
Understanding Equity & Excellence
The Annenberg Institute has launched a Web site devoted to dialogue about achieving both equity and excellence at scale in urban schools. Through essays, interviews, and multimedia materials, the site offers definitions of equity and excellence, examines the assumptions behind different — and sometimes competing — strategies to achieve equity and excellence at scale, and seeks to promote collaborative work across those strategies to reduce the large-scale, persistent academic achievement gaps based on race and income.
> Visit the Understanding Equity and Excellence Web site
Inequities in NYC Middle Grades Documented
A report by the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice (CEJ) concludes that inequities in curriculum offerings and teacher quality between the city's high- and low-performing middle-grade schools contribute to the failure of many middle-grade schools to prepare their students for the rigors of high school and beyond. New York City's Middle Grade Schools: Platforms for Success or Pathways to Failure? was prepared for CEJ by staff at the Community Involvement Program of the Annenberg Institute, which provides strategic support to this new grassroots coalition for educational reform in our nation's largest school system.
> Read more about the report and download the pdf
Moving Kids From Basic To Proficient: VUE 14
The No Child Left Behind Act created an audacious goal for American education: by 2014 — just seven years from now — all children must be "proficient" in reading and mathematics. But what, exactly, is proficiency? What would it take to bring all students to that level, and what role would organizations outside of schools play? The latest issue of Voices in Urban Education offers five perspectives on what "proficiency" looks like and how students' learning, in and out of school, can help them reach that goal. Articles by Edmund Gordon, Lauren B. Resnick and Lindsay Clare Matsumura, Louis Gomez, Phillip Herman, and Kimberley Gomez, Richard Sohmer and Sarah Michaels, Rhonda Lauer.
> Articles, excerpts, archives
A Conversation With Warren Simmons
Annenberg Institute executive director Warren Simmons was recently interviewed for a column on Edutopia, the George Lucas Educational Foundation Web site. The conversation, titled "Apostle of Change," ranges over a variety of topics including the effectiveness of American education, the challenge of meeting standards of proficiency, the role of public-private partnerships, the future of public education, and Simmons's reflection on his own place in the school reform movement.
> Read the article online
Smoothing Leadership Transitions
Annenberg staff members Ellen Foley and Robert Rothman are co-authors with Judy Wurtzel of the Aspen Institute and education consultant Deanna Burney of an article in the March issue of the American School Board Journal based on research done in Boston in anticipation of that district's leadership transition in 2006. "Look Back, Look Ahead" counsels school boards to take time to study where the district has been — and where it hopes to go — to ensure a smooth transition.
> The article will be available at the ASBJ Web site on April 1.
Making Urban Education Work
Urban Schools, Public Will by the Annenberg Institute's Norm Fruchter is now available from Teachers College Press. Fruchter draws on a rich array of research and personal experience to examine why, fifty years beyond Brown v. Board, urban districts have failed poor students of color and what must be done to transform our city schools.
> More details and ordering information
E-Newsletter, April 2007
Annenberg Institute Opens Expanded NYC OfficeTo accommodate our recent addition of staff in New York City from the Community Involvement Program (formerly at NYU), the Annenberg Institute has acquired new office space in the historic Woolworth Building on Broadway in lower Manhattan. The office officially opened on March 1. Personnel in the New York office include Marla Ucelli, Director of District Redesign; Norm Fruchter, Director of Community Involvement; and some 15 staff who support community and student collaboratives working for educational improvement in NYC schools and who conduct research and analysis on the effectiveness of community action for school reform.
> More information on the office and staff
Understanding Equity & ExcellenceThe Annenberg Institute has launched a Web site devoted to dialogue about achieving both equity and excellence at scale in urban schools. Through essays, interviews, and multimedia materials, the site offers definitions of equity and excellence, examines the assumptions behind different — and sometimes competing — strategies to achieve equity and excellence at scale, and seeks to promote collaborative work across those strategies to reduce the large-scale, persistent academic achievement gaps based on race and income.
> Visit the Understanding Equity and Excellence Web site
Inequities in NYC Middle Grades DocumentedA report by the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice (CEJ) concludes that inequities in curriculum offerings and teacher quality between the city's high- and low-performing middle-grade schools contribute to the failure of many middle-grade schools to prepare their students for the rigors of high school and beyond. New York City's Middle Grade Schools: Platforms for Success or Pathways to Failure? was prepared for CEJ by staff at the Community Involvement Program of the Annenberg Institute, which provides strategic support to this new grassroots coalition for educational reform in our nation's largest school system.
> Read more about the report and download the pdf
Moving Kids From Basic To Proficient: VUE 14The No Child Left Behind Act created an audacious goal for American education: by 2014 — just seven years from now — all children must be "proficient" in reading and mathematics. But what, exactly, is proficiency? What would it take to bring all students to that level, and what role would organizations outside of schools play? The latest issue of Voices in Urban Education offers five perspectives on what "proficiency" looks like and how students' learning, in and out of school, can help them reach that goal. Articles by Edmund Gordon, Lauren B. Resnick and Lindsay Clare Matsumura, Louis Gomez, Phillip Herman, and Kimberley Gomez, Richard Sohmer and Sarah Michaels, Rhonda Lauer.
> Articles, excerpts, archives
A Conversation With Warren SimmonsAnnenberg Institute executive director Warren Simmons was recently interviewed for a column on Edutopia, the George Lucas Educational Foundation Web site. The conversation, titled "Apostle of Change," ranges over a variety of topics including the effectiveness of American education, the challenge of meeting standards of proficiency, the role of public-private partnerships, the future of public education, and Simmons's reflection on his own place in the school reform movement.
> Read the article online
Smoothing Leadership Transitions
Annenberg staff members Ellen Foley and Robert Rothman are co-authors with Judy Wurtzel of the Aspen Institute and education consultant Deanna Burney of an article in the March issue of the American School Board Journal based on research done in Boston in anticipation of that district's leadership transition in 2006. "Look Back, Look Ahead" counsels school boards to take time to study where the district has been — and where it hopes to go — to ensure a smooth transition.
> The article will be available at the ASBJ Web site on April 1.
Making Urban Education WorkUrban Schools, Public Will by the Annenberg Institute's Norm Fruchter is now available from Teachers College Press. Fruchter draws on a rich array of research and personal experience to examine why, fifty years beyond Brown v. Board, urban districts have failed poor students of color and what must be done to transform our city schools.
> More details and ordering information
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