Building an Infrastructure for Generative and Sustained Change in Science Instruction in Urban Schools

Northwestern University, Evanston IL

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Abstract

In 1997, the National Science Foundation support created the Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools (LeTUS); a unique partnership focused on improving opportunities for challenging learning for urban children. LeTUS brings together two urban school districts, Detroit and Chicago, and research groups from the University of Michigan and Northwestern University. This partnership has created an infrastructure for developing and sustaining broad-based collaboration among professionals from public schools and university contexts, committed to improving teaching and learning in urban schools. This ABR proposal summarizes LeTUS' four years of accomplishments and charts plans for an additional eighteen months of work.