Continuing Challenges and Potential for Collaborative Approaches to Education Reform
Continuing Challenges and Potential for Collaborative Approaches to Education Reform by Susan J. Bodilly
English | Mar. 3, 2011 | ISBN: 0833051520 | 125 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | Mar. 3, 2011 | ISBN: 0833051520 | 125 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
The Ford Foundation's Collaborating for Education Reform Initiative (CERI) provided grantees with funds, guidance, and technical assistance to develop collaboratives and carry out activities to improve teaching and learning. A second effort, CERI 2, laid down a new set of goals for grantees. RAND Corporation researchers evaluated the initiative.
In 1997, the Ford Foundation began an effort, called the Collaborating for Education Reform Initiative (CERI), to promote school improvement in communities. It funded eight sites to establish collaboratives of community-based organizations and local school districts that were to create and sustain education reforms in their local areas. As part of this effort, the foundation sponsored a formative assessment of the grantees’ progress, to be carried out by the RAND Corporation from 1999 to 2003. The assessment was documented in Challenges and Potential of a Collaborative Approach to Education Reform.