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Continuing Challenges and Potential for Collaborative Approaches to Education Reform
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Bodilly, Susan J.; Karam, Rita; Orr, Nate – RAND Corporation, 2011
The Ford Foundation began the Collaborating for Education Reform Initiative (CERI) in 1997-1998 by issuing grants and providing grantees with funds, guidance, and technical assistance to develop collaboratives and carry out activities to improve teaching and learning. CERI's collaborative activities were directed at three possible community…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Partnerships in Education, Cooperation, Grants
Revitalizing Arts Education through Community-Wide Coordination: Summary
Bodilly, Susan J.; Augustine, Catherine H. – RAND Corporation, 2008
Arts education has been a low priority in the nation's public schools for more than 30 years. In some communities, a countermovement to this dwindling presence of arts education in the schools has developed in the form of initiatives aimed at coordinating schools, cultural institutions, community-based organizations, foundations, and/or…
Descriptors: Art Education, Cultural Centers, Public Agencies, Public Schools
Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-Wide Coordination
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Bodilly, Susan J.; Augustine, Catherine H. – RAND Corporation, 2008
For over 30 years, arts education has been a low priority in the nation's public schools. Arts teaching positions were cut, and arts education in schools has dwindled as schools try to increase test scores in mathematics and reading within the time constraints of the school day. Some communities have responded with initiatives aimed at…
Descriptors: Art Education, Public Schools, Urban Schools, Partnerships in Education