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December 2001
E-Newsletter, December 2001
Feature
COMMUNITY-SUPPORTED SCHOOL REFORM: Building a New Society
The Annenberg Institute is collaborating with the Academy for Educational Development (AED) to provide technical assistance and support for the Carnegie Corporation's "Schools for a New Society" initiative. The Institute and AED will work with seven urban districts chosen to receive support from Carnegie in restructuring their secondary schools. The initiative is designed to promote the comprehensive redesign of high schools with a strong emphasis on community input and support. > SNS Web site
In The Press
MINORITIES AND SCHOOL CHOICE: Is public education the loser?
Annenberg Institute Executive Director Warren Simmons was interviewed for an article on the increasing support for school choice among minority parents, which appeared in the December 5, 2001, issue of Education Week. "This new movement from communities of color and low-income parents is certainly a threat to leaders in public education," said Simmons. "If these parents opt out, who is the constituency in these urban areas?"
>Read the complete article, "Minority Parents Quietly Embrace School Choice." (requires free registration)
HIGH-STAKES TESTING: Are we being fair to students?
A member of the Annenberg Institute's Principals Group has written about the group's deliberations on the use and misuse of high-stakes testing in the November 21, 2001, issue of Education Week. Robert DeBlois, principal of the Urban Collaborative, an independent alternative public school in Providence, R.I., revisits the group's dilemma over the value of testing to raise standards and the dangers of using individual test scores to make significant decisions about students and their future.
> Read the complete article, "An Accountable Balance." (free registration required)
RUNNING URBAN SCHOOL DISTRICTS: Is there a better way?
A member of School Communities that Work, the Annenberg Institute's National Task Force on the Future of Urban Districts, explores a major issue facing big-city school boards and community leaders in the Winter 2001 issue of Education Next. Paul Hill, Research Professor in the University of Washington's Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education looks at how the combination of political loyalties, centralized management and labor contracts has undermined the ability of urban schools to work efficiently and effectively. Hill argues that "Americans are paying too much for school district oversight and getting too little for it."
> Read the complete article, "Hero Worship."
> Learn more about the work of the Institute's District Task Force
New At Brown
$1-MILLION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM: Studies on national eduction
Annenberg Institute Executive Director Warren Simmons will serve on the faculty of a new postdoctoral studies program at Brown University that provides 10 scholars with nine-month research leaves to examine issues around the theme "The Nation and Its Schools: Federal and National Strategies for School Reform." The scholars will work at locations of their choice, coming to Brown for two seminars during the study year.
> Read the news release.
E-Newsletter, December 2001
Feature
COMMUNITY-SUPPORTED SCHOOL REFORM: Building a New Society
The Annenberg Institute is collaborating with the Academy for Educational Development (AED) to provide technical assistance and support for the Carnegie Corporation's "Schools for a New Society" initiative. The Institute and AED will work with seven urban districts chosen to receive support from Carnegie in restructuring their secondary schools. The initiative is designed to promote the comprehensive redesign of high schools with a strong emphasis on community input and support. > SNS Web site
In The Press
MINORITIES AND SCHOOL CHOICE: Is public education the loser?
Annenberg Institute Executive Director Warren Simmons was interviewed for an article on the increasing support for school choice among minority parents, which appeared in the December 5, 2001, issue of Education Week. "This new movement from communities of color and low-income parents is certainly a threat to leaders in public education," said Simmons. "If these parents opt out, who is the constituency in these urban areas?"
>Read the complete article, "Minority Parents Quietly Embrace School Choice." (requires free registration)
HIGH-STAKES TESTING: Are we being fair to students?
A member of the Annenberg Institute's Principals Group has written about the group's deliberations on the use and misuse of high-stakes testing in the November 21, 2001, issue of Education Week. Robert DeBlois, principal of the Urban Collaborative, an independent alternative public school in Providence, R.I., revisits the group's dilemma over the value of testing to raise standards and the dangers of using individual test scores to make significant decisions about students and their future.
> Read the complete article, "An Accountable Balance." (free registration required)
RUNNING URBAN SCHOOL DISTRICTS: Is there a better way?
A member of School Communities that Work, the Annenberg Institute's National Task Force on the Future of Urban Districts, explores a major issue facing big-city school boards and community leaders in the Winter 2001 issue of Education Next. Paul Hill, Research Professor in the University of Washington's Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education looks at how the combination of political loyalties, centralized management and labor contracts has undermined the ability of urban schools to work efficiently and effectively. Hill argues that "Americans are paying too much for school district oversight and getting too little for it."
> Read the complete article, "Hero Worship."
> Learn more about the work of the Institute's District Task Force
New At Brown
$1-MILLION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM: Studies on national eduction
Annenberg Institute Executive Director Warren Simmons will serve on the faculty of a new postdoctoral studies program at Brown University that provides 10 scholars with nine-month research leaves to examine issues around the theme "The Nation and Its Schools: Federal and National Strategies for School Reform." The scholars will work at locations of their choice, coming to Brown for two seminars during the study year.
> Read the news release.
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