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Aspen Institute Inc.
Washington, DC
Amount: $300,000.00
Length: 2 yrs.
URL: www.aspeninstitute.org
To continue the efforts of the Commission on No Child Left Behind to inform the reauthorization debate and subsequent implementation of a new version of the law.
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12/6/2007
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Center for American Progress
Washington, DC
Amount: $300,000.00
Length: 2 yrs.
URL: www.americanprogress.org
To explore and promote the need to modernize the nation’s teacher and principal compensation systems so that all students will be taught by high-quality teachers.
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12/6/2007
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Chicago Public Education Fund
Chicago, IL
Amount: $475,000.00
Length: 2 yrs.
URL: www.cpef.org/flash.htm
To continue providing strategic support to Chicago Public Schools in implementing a human-capital driven strategy for turning around failing schools.
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12/6/2007
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Education Writers Association
Washington, DC
Amount: $170,236.00
Length: 2 yrs.
URL: www.ewa.org
To assist Midwest reporters in covering issues related to teacher quality in low-performing public schools, and issues related to charter schools and choice.
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12/6/2007
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GreatSchools
San Francisco, CA
Amount: $75,000.00
Length: 1 yr.
URL: www.greatschools.net
To increase demand for high-quality schools in Milwaukee by providing parents with easily accessible data on school effectiveness and information on their school options.
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12/6/2007
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National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Washington, DC
Amount: $300,000.00
Length: 18 mos.
URL: www.PublicCharters.org
To develop a model charter school law and build public and policy-maker support for charters in Illinois.
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12/6/2007
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National Institute for Excellence in Teaching
Santa Monica, CA
Amount: $300,000.00
Length: 1 yr.
URL: www.tapschools.org
To provide support to the Chicago Teacher Advancement Program in the areas of communication and training, and to coordinate and build consensus within a national coalition advocating performance-based pay for teachers.
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12/6/2007
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New Teacher Project Inc.
New York, NY
Amount: $344,178.00
Length: 1 yr.
URL: www.tntp.org
To help Chicago Public Schools effectively staff a set of its lowest-performing schools; coordinate the Chicago, New York, and Washington, DC school districts in exploring reforms of select human-capital policies; and document the state-level policies that may hamper effective teacher hiring in Illinois. (1 yr.)
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12/6/2007
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Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Amount: $127,610.00
Length: 2 yrs.
URL: www.northwestern.edu
To work with the Chicago Public Schools to develop a new selection and evaluation process for student teachers that will help the district better identify which student teachers they should recruit aggressively for permanent positions.
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12/6/2007
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President and Fellows of Harvard College
Cambridge, MA
Amount: $470,138.00
Length: 2 yrs.
URL: www.harvard.edu
For its Project for Innovation in Education to study the effectiveness of Cincinnati’s teacher evaluation system.
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12/6/2007
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