What's New at Expeditionary Learning
The Fund For Teachers 2007 grant applications are now available! See our Fund For Teachers page for additional information.
Suzanne Gregg, Educational Director at ANSER in Boise, was interviewed on Boise State Radio on a program called New Horizons in Education - June 2nd. The program is available (audio) by clicking here. Look for the June 2nd broadcast.
Read about the Russell Byers Charter School in "Heart of the City", an article in the most recent issue of the American School Board Journal.
Both King Middle School in Portland Maine and Decatur Discovery Academy in Indianapolis, Indiana are featured in news articles. Read all about it!
Expeditionary Learning has supported the opening of the first two of 20
proposed new small EL high schools with funding from the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation. They are Skyview Expeditionary Learning High
School, with the Mapleton Public Schools near Denver and the Bronx
Expeditionary Learning High School in New York City.
Seven more small EL high schools are in the planning stages for next year, with three more in New
York City, another with the Mapleton Public Schools near Denver, and one each in Oakland, CA, Springfield, MA, and Portland, ME.
Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) funding was recently re-authorized in the federal budget, cut by only 11% instead of 100% as many educators and policy-makers had feared. We thank the many EL school principals and other supporters who wrote their legislative representatives. Congressional staff told Expeditionary Learning that more good letters came from EL schools than from schools associated with any other reform design.
Expeditionary Learning has joined with Co-nect and 3 other design teams to participate in a study funded by the US Department of Education to measure the effectiveness of professional development in improving instruction and student learning.
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