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Recent Major Reports

Research Perspectives on School Reform: Lessons from the Annenberg Challenge [PDF files]

The Annenberg Institute has published Research Perspectives on School Reform: Lessons from the Annenberg Challenge, 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 volume features an introduction by Brenda Turnbull of Policy Studies Associates, who collected and edited the essays and a preface by Institute Executive Director Warren Simmons and Deputy Director Michael Grady.

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Please note that due to size, this report has been split by chapter into 9 separate PDF files. Click on the chapter title for the related PDF. The foreword and introduction are included in one file.

FOREWORD (74 KB - 14 pgs.)
Warren Simmons & Michael Grady, Annenberg Institute for School Reform

INTRODUCTION: Brenda J. Turnbull, Policy Studies Associates

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EVOLUTION IN TANDEM DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH IN AN ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAM (90 KB - 20 pgs.)
Hollis Headrick & Greg McCaslin, The Center for Arts Education
Terry Baker, Education Development Center, Inc.

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BUILDING CONSTRUCTIVE PARTNERSHIPS IN URBAN SCHOOL REFORM (73 KB - 16 pgs.)
Joy Phillips & Pedro Reyes, University of Texas at Austin
Linda Clarke, Houston Annenberg Challenge

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TRANSFORMING EVENTS: A LOCAL EDUCATION FUND'S EFFORTS TO PROMOTE LARGE-SCALE URBAN SCHOOL REFORM (98 KB - 18 pgs.)
Barbara Neufeld, Education Matters, Inc.
Ellen Guiney, Boston Plan for Excellence in the Public Schools

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BALANCING SUMMATIVE AND FORMATIVE EVALUATION: NEW PARTNERSHIPS, NEW EVALUATION MODELS (59 KB - 12 pgs.)
Joy Frechtling, Westat
Donald J. Killeen, Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge

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ESTABLISHING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN EVALUATION AND PROGRAM IMPROVEMENT (79 KB - 16 pgs.)
Denise D. Quigley, University of California at Los Angeles

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THE PROMISE AND CHALLENGE OF EVALUATING SYSTEMIC REFORM IN AN URBAN DISTRICT (98 KB - 20 pgs.)
Thomas Corcoran, Consortium for Policy Research in Education
Ellen Foley, Annenberg Institute for School Reform

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BEYOND STANDARDIZED-TEST SCORES: USING CASE STUDIES TO EVALUATE A REFORM STRATEGY (75 KB - 16 pgs.)
Ann G. Bessell, Jeanne Shay Schumm & Okhee Lee, University of Miami
Elaine Liftin & Sisty Walsh, South Florida Annenberg Challenge.

APPENDIX: REPORTS ON THE ANNENBERG CHALLENGE SITES (23 KB - 3 pgs.)

The Arts and School Reform:
Lessons and Possibilities from the Annenberg Challenge Arts Projects [PDF file]

This Annenberg Institute publication draws overarching lessons from the work of the three Challenge Arts 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 reform practitioners (build reform from within; make excellence equitable) and lessons from standards-based reform for arts educators (rethink accountability; begin with permanence in mind). AISR Director of Opportunity and Accountability Dennie Palmer Wolf researched and prepared the report.

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The Annenberg Challenge: Lessons and Reflections on Public School Reform [PDF file]

The Annenberg Foundation and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform commissioned "Lessons and Reflections" not to memorialize further a landmark philanthropic gesture but to impart what we learned from successes and failures. We wrote this report with the public, not professional educators, in mind and sought to tell our story without the jargon that makes so many education reports (and conversations) impenetrable.

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Progress Reports

Students at Work: A Portfolio from the Annenberg Challenge April 2000 [PDF file]

Collectively, 2,500 Annenberg schools - the beneficiaries of Walter H. Annenberg's $500 million 'Challenge' gift - demonstrate that school reform works. In 18 unique projects created to fit local needs, the Annenberg Challenge mobilized communities on behalf of children, improved education policies, gained partners for schools, strengthened teaching, and - most important of all - advanced student learning.

Meeting the Challenge: Fundraising Progress in The Annenberg Challenge January 2000 [PDF file]
This summary addresses how the nation's philanthropic community has responded to the Annenberg Challenge. To explore this subject--and to offer information that might benefit the projects in their ongoing development efforts--the Challenge national office, in conjunction with staff from the Annenberg Foundation and from individual Challenge projects, analyzed donor data (current as of September 30, 1999) provided by each project. As the summary, American philanthropy has responded to the Challenge with distinct enthusiasm...

Citizens Changing Their Schools: A Midterm Report of The Annenberg Challenge April 1999
This report marked a midpoint in Walter H. Annenberg's $500 million challenge to improve public schools, what he aptly called a citizen's "crusade for the betterment of this country." It came at a time when evidence from the Annenberg Challenge's first projects had started to accumulate--and suggested that the program was indeed having a beneficial impact on students, schools, and communities. It furnished early lessons that had much to tell about effective school reform.

Challenge to the Nation: A Progress Report of The Annenberg Challenge February 1998
This first annual progress report published by the Annenberg Challenge National Office details the Challenge's beginnings and describes the grant recipients.

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Periodicals and Journals

Winter 2002/2003 [PDF file]
Fall 2002 [PDF file]
Spring 2002 [PDF file]
Fall 2001 [PDF file]
Spring 2001
Summer 2000
Winter 2000
Fall 1999
Spring 1999
Fall 1998
Summer 1998

	'Intermediary Organizations' Help Bring Reform to Scale – Vol 6 No 2 (Winter 2002/2003) [PDF File]
	Transforming High Schools into Small Learning Communities - Vol 6 No 1 (Winter 2002/2003) [PDF File]
	Closing the Achievement Gap: How Schools Are Making It Happen - Vol 5 No 2 (Winter 2001/2002) [PDF File] [Text File]
	How Teacher Unions Are Working with Districts to Improve Schools - Vol 5 No 1 (Spring 2001) [PDF file]
	Finding the Words - Vol 4, No 2 (Fall 2000)
	Students Solving Community Problems - Vol 4, No 1 (Summer 2000)
	Teacher Preparation and Renewal - Vol 3, No 2 (Spring 1999)
	How the Arts Transform Schools - Vol 3, No 1 (Fall 1998)
	How Schools Can Work Better for the Kids Who Need the Most - Vol 2, No 2 (Spring 1998)
	Looking at Learning Across the Map - Vol 2, No 1 (Fall 1997)
	What Rural Schools Can Teach Urban Systems - Vol 1, No 2 (Fall 1997)
	Community and Critical Friendships - Vol 1, No 1 (Winter 1997)

Occasional Papers
		Spotlighting Arts Education: As part of his Challenge to improve education generally for urban and rural students, Ambassador Walter Annenberg chose to include a particular emphasis on improving arts education in American schools. As a champion of the visual and performing arts, the Ambassador believed that the arts deserved a prominent place in the curriculum and he sought to encourage high-quality arts instruction that did not depend on a student's background or where he or she lived. [PDF file] June 2001
		The Lingo: A guide to help decode the terms that so many school change people have come to use in Challenge sites around the nation. July 1998
		Creating a Regional Mosaic: The Influence of the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative on Educational Grantmaking in the San Francisco Bay Area. August 1999
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