annenberg challenge

Research Perspectives on School Reform: Lessons from the Annenberg Challenge

This report is a collection of essays about the intentions and achievements of a cross-section of Annenberg Challenge projects. Written by project directors and local evaluators at seven of the project sites, the volume offers a unique, inside view of what the projects set out to do and how the partnerships between Challenge research and program staffs at the sites helped clarify and refocus the work over time.

The Arts and School Reform: Lessons and Possibilities from the Annenberg Challenge Arts Projects

This publication draws overarching lessons from the work of the three ChallengeArts projects: the Center for Arts Education in New York City, the Minneapolis Arts for Academic Achievement program, and the national Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge. The report offers insights from arts education for school reofrm practitioners (build reform from within; make excellence equitable) and lessons from standards-based reform for arts educators (rethink accountability; begin...

The Annenberg Challenge: Lessons and Reflections on Public School Reform

On June 12th, 2002, the Annenberg Foundation released the final report on its historic school reform effort. The report, entitled, "The Annenberg Challenge: Lessons & Reflections on Public School Reform," describes the Challenge's achievements in improving urban, rural and arts education. The report was released to the press and an audience of education leaders and policymakers at an event held in Washington, D.C. Warren Simmons, executive director of the Annenberg Institute...

Voices in Urban Education

The Next Four Years: Recommendations for Federal Education Policy

Issue: 36

Current standards- and market-based federal education reform policies are necessary, but not sufficient. In the Winter/Spring issue of VUE, AISR suggests a more robust, equitable, and comprehensive approach.

Recent Issues of VUE

College Readiness Indicator Systems

Issue: 35

In the Fall issue of VUE, researchers and practitioners from the College Readiness Indicator Systems initiative address the questions: How do we know when a student is “college ready,” and how do we use that information to design effective supports and interventions?

Education for Liberation

Issue: 34

In the summer issue of VUE, participants from the 2011 Free Minds Free People Conference write about the liberatory potential of education. Through myriad lenses, these teachers, students, activists, and scholars focus on the crucial ways that education forms the most basic foundation of a democratic, equitable society and what it means to engage in education for liberation.

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