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, and the Say Yes to Education Program in New York City.
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
-- Tocci, C., Allen, D. & Hochman, D. (2008). Practice Brief #2: Key Dimentions in Advisory Programs. New York: NCREST.
-- Rogovin, P. (2008). Images of Practice: Investigating vehicles and transportation & The lightbulb experiment. New York: NCREST.
-- Ancess, J., Barnett, E., & Allen, D. (2007). Using Data to Inform the Practice of Teachers, Schools, and School Reform Organizations. Theory into Practice (volume 46, Number 4, page 325-333)
-- Blythe, T., Allen, D., & Powell, B. (2007) Looking Together at Student Work (2nd Edition. New York: Teachers College Press.
-- Barnett, E. & Spence, K. (2007). Building Knowledge in the Middle College National Consortium: Lessons from the Math and Data Use Project. New York: NCREST.
