A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

Fix or Close Down Troubled Schools and Reopen Them as New American or Charter Schools

Sources of Assistance and Information

New American Schools Corporation
1000 Wilson Boulevard
Suite 2710
Arlington, VA 22209
(703) 908-9500

Reading Recovery Council of North America
Ohio State University
29 West Woodruff
300 Ramseyer Hall
Columbus, OH
(614) 292-4260
Center for School Change
Humphrey Institute
University of Minnesota
301 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612-626-1834

Accelerated Schools
Henry Levin
Professor of Education and Economics
Stanford University
Menlo Park, CA
(415) 723-0840
RPP International
2200 Powell Street, Suite 250
Emeryville, CA 94608
510-450-2550, 510-843-8574
E-mail: Rppintl.@aol.com

Design teams for the New American Schools include: ATLAS Communities combining the work of Ted Sizer, James Comer, Howard Gardner, and the Education Development Center; Audrey Cohen College; Co-NECT Schools using technology; Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound; Modern Red Schoolhouse designed by the Hudson Institute; the National Alliance for Restructuring Education; and Roots and Wings that extends Bob Slavin’s Success For All model.

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