Partners & Links
Partners in Education
Annenberg Institute for School Reform
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The Annenberg Institute develops, shares and acts on knowledge that improves schooling in America, especially in urban communities. The Annenberg Institute currently focuses its programs in six initiative areas, carrying out its work through research and analysis, collaborations with partner organizations, support for local action, and publications and conferences. To help develop and refine its programming, the Institute periodically convenes a Program Advisory Group which reviews current activities and makes recommendations for future focus of its work. For more information, call (401) 863-7990.
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With a staff of over 50 professionals, The Education Alliance promotes educational change to provide all students equitable opportunities to succeed.
Since 1975, we have partnered with schools, districts and state departments of education throughout the United States and abroad to apply research findings in developing solutions to educational challenges. We focus on district and school improvement with special attention to underperformance and issues of equity and diversity.
We design and deliver expert services around planning, professional learning, and research and evaluation.
Major Departmental Projects
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The ArtsLiteracy Project (ArtsLit) is dedicated to developing the literacy of youth through the performing and visual arts. Based in the Education Department, ArtsLit gathers an international community of artists, teachers, youth, college students, and professors with the goal of collaboratively creating innovative approaches to literacy development through the arts.
Although ArtsLit has a local focus, through such venues as an international teaching lab school for teachers and artists; summer and weekend workshops; international publications and presentations; and undergraduate and graduate course work, the ArtsLiteracy Project aspires to broaden definitions of and approaches to literacy development both nationally and internationally.
ArtsLit draws on research in language development, literacy, and arts education that suggests that the multisensory learning involved in theatre work—acting, speaking, writing, planning and organizing for a performance—is a powerful tool for improving students' engagement in school, and especially in literacy activities. The project leaders bring to this work research and practice in the fields of English language, arts, theatre, literature, and teacher education. For more information, call (401) 863-7017.
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The BSHS enables students, entering the ninth, tenth, eleventh or twelth grades, to challenge their minds and stretch their abilities by focusing on developing essential skills in reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking. Courses are taught by teams of students enrolled in the Masters of Arts in Teaching and Undergraduate Teacher Education programs at Brown which are led by mentor teachers from local schools. For information, call (401) 863-1677.
Others @ Brown
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Each year, thousands of students from all over the world come to Brown to take advantage of our unique & challenging summer programs.
Summer Studies offers three different types of classes:
- Pre-College classes for motivated high school students
- Graduate and Undergraduate classes for Brown students and students visiting from other institutions
- Intensive English Language Programs
Center for the Study of Human Development
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The Center facilitates research in human development at Brown by providing intellectual and material resources to scholars addressing critical problems in promoting human potential throughout the lifespan. It fosters communication and collaboration among faculty and students interested in developmental research and training – collaboration that crosses departmental and disciplinary boundaries and creates links between the campus and the medical school. It serves as a resource for programs for students interested in learning about human development. These include a special human development track of the Educational Studies concentration, administered by the Education Department and including courses from several social and life science departments. The Center sponsors colloquiums and conferences on topics of interest to the broader public community beyond Brown.
The A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions
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The A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions was established at Brown in 1984. Its mission is teaching, research, and service focused on the areas of health care policy, education policy, urban policy, law and criminal justice, and media and technology. The Center sponsors an undergraduate program in Public Policy and offers graduate degrees in Master's of Public Policy and Master's of Public Affairs.
The study of public policy allows students to understand the interplay of institutions, society, and the public sector and to utilize this understanding as a tool for solving pressing policy problems. A policy focus provides an excellent vehicle for integrating ideas drawn from several disciplines around issues of real world significance.