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Accelerated Schools Project
http://www.acceleratedschools.net/
The ASP, begun at Stanford University, provides a challenging, enriched
curriculum to at-risk students through regional centers and a coaching
structure. The history and goals of the project are presented, as
are links to Stanford and the Stanford University School of Education,
newsletters, and calendars of events.
ATLAS Communities Project
http://www.atlascommunities.org/
The ATLAS Communities is a joint project of the Coalition for Essential
Schools, the Educational Development Center, the Comer School Development
Program, and Project Zero at Harvard University, employing several of
the ideas of all the participants, such as school as community, equitable
opportunity, and multiple intelligences and pathways. The site links
to descriptions not only of individual schools and districts involved,
but to the general climate of the city in which they belong, an interview
with Ted Sizer of CES, links to eight sites, thematic curricular units
used with individual classrooms in the project, and a convenient form
to use to make suggestions about future directions the program might
pursue.
Benedum Collaborative Professional Development Schools
http://www.hre.wvu.edu/benedum/pds/pds.htm
The Benedum Collaborative Professional Development Schools, sponsored
by the West Viginia University College of Human Resources and Education and
funded by a $1.5 million grant from the Pittsburgh-based Claude Worthington
Benedum Foundation, is a collaborative education reform effort which includes
a professional development school initiative. Links are provided to information
on the project's purpose, goals, and participants, and a link to the Morgantown
(WV) High School homepage (PDS site).
The Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships
http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/center.htm
The Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins
University was established in 1990 with OERI support. The center conducts
and disseminates research and policy analyses, as well as distributing
classroom materials and videos designed to increase understanding of
partnerships. It is a part of the National Network of Partnership 2000
schools (to which it links). Based on Epsteins' framework of six types
of involvement (a link provides much more information), the Center encourages
the action team approach, decentralizing and de-emphasizing the Center's
role in direct program management. Well-designed and so full of information
it can be overwhelming, the site links to membership, school districts,
contact information, order information for Center publications (though
no direct order link), a Q & A section and a sample newsletter article.
CHS Web
http://communityhigh.org/
CHS Web, a high school web project, is the result of a collaborative
curriculum project (the Foundations of Science curriculum) between the
University of Michigan and the Community High School in Ann Arbor (MI).
On this site are lists of curriculum topics and sequence and links to
student work.
The Coalition of Essential Schools
http://www.essentialschools.org/
The Coalition of Essential Scools, now a group of 1,000 more or less
autonomous schools nationwide, with 24 regional centers, adheres to
the principles set forth by Ted Sizer, which grew out of the NASSP's
_A Study of High Schools_. This informative, dense site provides links
to background information, projects, members, regional centers, and
participating schools.
Comer School Development Program
http://info.med.yale.edu/comer/
This award-winning and exhaustive site is the web home of the prestigious
Comer Program, which has been involved in systemic school reform efforts
since 1968, most currently with the ATLAS Communities (see below). James
P. Comer, of the Yalke Child Study Center, supported by the Rockefeller
Foundation, emphasizes multiple pathways of student learning, the school
as community, parental and community involvement, and encouragement
of diversity and justice in educational opportunity. This site links
to a dazzling variety of sites and information: staff biographies and
e-mail links, the history and mission of the program, regional centers,
full-text publications, Yale and the Yale Child Study Center, school
districts, professional development centers, and the AERA School Climate
Special Interest Group site.
National Center for Educational Alliances
http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/NationalCenterForEducationalAlliances/about.html
The National Center for Educational Alliances is hosted by the City University of New York and manages the Ford Foundation’s Urban Partnership Program. The Center also works internationally by facilitating university-community partnerships in South Africa.
PARTNERS
http://partners.upenn.edu/
PARTNERS is a University of Pennsylvania project, initiated in 1991,
which pairs individual first through eighth grade urban Philadelphia
classrooms with their suburban counterparts, with the goal of reducing
isolation, enhancing racial relations and providing the students with
conflict resolution training. The site provides links to related programs,
articles about the program, participating schools and school districts,
and a link to students' collaborative projects.
Project Advance
http://supa.syr.edu:80/
Project Advance, initiated in 1972, is "one of the largest and
oldest school partnership programs in the United States," offering
qualified high school seniors the opportunity to enroll in university
courses taught by high school instructors on the Syracuse University
campus. The homepage is geared to prospective students and their parents,
linking to lists, short biographies, and direct e-mail links to faculty
and staff, course descriptions and syllabus information, an FAQ section
and an online magazine of student writing coming out of the program.
The site is updated frequently, and an e-mail form to provide feedback
on the site itself is provided.
"Reforms in Preservice Preparation Programs
and Teacher Certification Standards."
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/IASA/newsletters/profdev/pt3.html
A May 1996 article from the Department of Education newsletter "Improving
America's Schools: Newsletter on Issues in School Reform" is provided
at this site. Although not about a specific program, the article provides
a good overview of approaches to professional development schools, their
research underpinnings, examples of programs, and links to other Education
Department resources.
The Research Triangle Professional Development
Schools Partnership
http://www.unc.edu/depts/pds/
This University of North Carolina program aims to restructure public
school curriculum, and to encourage, conduct and disseminate school-based
research and improve teacher preparation by involving schools, parents
and the business community in its initiatives. These include placement
and training of preservice teachers, providing support groups to ease
the transition of first year teachers, and collaboration with LEARN
NC, a North Carolina computer network disseminating professional development
information. This well-organized site links to descriptions or websites
of its five sites and other Professional Development Schools sites,
and the UNC School of Education homepage.
St. Louis Center for Inquiry in Science Teaching and Learning
http://cistl.wustl.edu
"The St. Louis Center for Inquiry in Science Teaching and
Learning (CISTL) supports inquiry-based teaching in K-12
science education through professional development and
through research into science learning and teaching."
Talent Development Schools
http://www.csos.jhu.edu/tdhs/index.htm
The Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk,
co-directed by Robert E. Slavin of Johns Hopkins University and A. Wade
Boykin at Howard University, sponsors two "talent development schools"
using a ninth grade academy, block scheduling and the concept of multiple
pathways to transform schooling for at-risk students. The website is
organized as two long documents with internal links leading the reader
through the documents, each focusing on one of the schools participating,
one a Baltimore high school and the other a Philadelphia middle school.
Early statistics on the effect of the program and a list of references
are provided.
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