Date sent: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 06:54:20 -0800
From: LindaP (Texas)
Subject: Another Tucker Project

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Improving American Education

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LRDC projects are playing a major role in restructuring our country's education system and helping teachers improve their methods.

The New Standards Project, led jointly by LRDC Director Lauren Resnick and by Marc Tucker of the National Center for Education and the Economy, has now entered a new institutionalized phase. Eighteen states and six urban school districts are now contributing partners. The project is developing a clear set of expectations for America's schools and students, equitable means of assessing whether students meet those standards, and guidance to help teachers teach toward them. New Standards is doing what government alone cannot to set high standards for education and to show how those standards can be met. The National Alliance for Restructuring Education, funded by the New American Schools Development Corporation, is another project in which LRDC has a key role. The Alliance is a consortium of educators and resource partners focused on the growth and development of young people and the restructuring of the school that serve them.

The Quasar Project, led by Edward Silver of LRDC, is working in six locations around the country, with diverse student populations, to reform mathematics education. The project provides basic reform principles and support to reform efforts that are designed and implemented locally. The project also includes a major effort to describe effective instructional programs so that they can be adapted to other schools in low-income areas, and to help determine the critical features of successful instructional approaches manifested in classrooms, schools, and communities.

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