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Grants
9
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Total Awarded
$1,622,801
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Years
1986 - 1999
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Categories
Grants
To support a workshop and a working paper on teacher quality.
To develop an analytic model that to help states and school districts identify their full range of sources of revenue and items of expenditure for professional development of teachers and principals in grades K-12 (over two years).
To examine the costs and benefits—financial, political, and institutional—of professional development opportunities that help educators address the challenges of instituting higher national, state, and local standards for student learning.
To prepare an initial report on potential alliances between advocates of learning through community service and advocates of structural and curricular reform of schools; to convene leaders of education reform with leaders of service learning to outline conditions for allied efforts; and to prepare and circulate the proceedings.
To generate policy and program options for coordination and improvement of social and educational services in urban areas.
To support the Policies and Higher Literacies Project (over three years).
To plan and develop the Campus Partners in Learning Project.
To support studies, publications, and public discussion of state and local policies that constrain or promote the development of "higher literacies" and "thoughtfulness" among broad segments of the student population.
To stimulate and inform discussion of education reform issues and strategies among policymakers, the press, and the public using as a primary resource the report "The Best of Educations," by William Chance.