Conference Organizers
Ruben Donato, University of Colorado at Boulder
Marvin Lazerson, University of Pennsylvania
March 30 - 31, 2000
New Directions in the History of Education
Stanford, CA
Thursday, March 30
Bayside A Room, 4th Floor, Sheraton Hotel
4:00 p.m. Welcome: John B. Williams, Vice
President, The Spencer Foundation
4:15 p.m. Conference Overview and Introductions: Rebecca Barr, the Spencer
Foundation Case Introductions
5:00 p.m. Case Presentation: The ReNUE Project, Northwestern University
6:00 p.m. Group Discussion of Focus Questions:
(1) What understandings come out of the collaboration, and what knowledge is
produced?
(2) What does it mean to have a research agenda with practice at the center?
6:45 p.m. Remarks: Patricia Albjerg Graham, President, The Spencer Foundation
7:00 p.m. Reception/Dinner, Waterbury Ballroom, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Hotel
Friday, March 31
Tennessee Williams Room, 3rd Floor, Waterbury Conference Center
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Opening Remarks: Ramona Thomas, The Spencer Foundation
8:45 - 10:45 a.m. Case Presentations and Small Group Discussions, 4th Floor,
Waterbury
Three Concurrent Sessions of Two Presentations Each
Group I Mark Twain Room
(1) The Algebra Project (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
(2) Brookline Teacher/ Researcher Seminar (Brookline, Massachusetts)
Group II Truman Capote Room
(1) Ganado Intermediate School (Ganado, Arizona)
(2) The M-Class Case (University of California, Berkley)
Group III William Faulkner Room
(1) Madison Metropolitan School District (Madison, Wisconsin)
(2) TAPAS: Teachers and Parents and Students (University of Pennsylvania)
10:45-12:00 p.m. Working Groups
12:00-1:00 p.m. Working Lunch, Cafi Promenade, Sheraton Hotel
1:00-2:00 p.m. Reflections About Knowledge Generated
2:00-2:30 p.m. Break
2:30-4:00 p.m. Panelists: Courtney Cazden, Hugh Mehan, Jim Minstrell, Renee
More, Jacqueline Jones Royster, Warren Simmons
4:00 p.m. Closing remarks
Adjourn