HISTORY
NCREST, established in 1990 by Linda Darling-Hammond and Ann Lieberman, was created to document, support, and sustain the education restructuring efforts occurring in the New York area and across the nation. More. . .
MISSION
NCREST’s mission is to advance education stakeholders’ understanding of the intense, complex, and difficult work of restructuring schools. To carry out this mission, NCREST conducts research, fosters connections, and develops resources that share concrete, detailed knowledge and vivid images to help education practitioners, reformers, researchers, parents and community members to reimagine and create schools that are responsive, equitable and successful.
PROJECTS
NCREST has carried out a wide range of completed projects that address many of the fundamental and comprehensive changes that successful restructuring demands. Current projects include work on Early College Initiatives, the Institute for Student Achievement, the Say Yes to Education Program in New York City, and the Images of Practice.
PUBLICATIONS
Online and print publications produced as part of NCREST projects address the changes that need to be made in many aspects of schooling -- including school organization, teaching practices, curriculum, assessment, accountability, parent and community involvement, and policy. Recent publications include the launch of a new series of Practice Briefs that provide guidance on key issues of school improvement.
IMAGES OF PRACTICE
NCREST is also involved in a variety of efforts to use multimedia and the internet to develop and share images of practice that can be used in both professional development and teacher education.
STAFF
NCREST's Co-Directors are Jacqueline Ancess and Thomas Hatch.
NEW FROM NCREST
-- Hatch, T. (2009). Managing to Change: How Schools Can Survive (and Sometimes Thrive) in Turbulent Times. New York: Teachers College Press. (An accompanying website can be found here)
-- Kim, J. (2009). College Performance and College Readiness Attitudes: Middle College National Consortium Early College High School Seniors. New York: NCREST.
-- Hatch, T. (2009). The scholarship of teaching and web-based representations of teaching in the United States: Definitions, histories, and new directions. Educational Action Research, 17 (1), 63-78.
-- Hatch, T. & Grossman, P. (2009). Learning to look beyond the boundaries of representation. Journal of Teacher Education. 60, (1): 70-85.
-- Spence, K. & Barnett, E. (2008). Highlights from the MCNC Graduating Student Survey Data: Early College High Schools (2006-07). New York: NCREST.
