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CCE has moved its home offices in Boston. As of February 1, 2010, our new address is 33 Harrison Ave., Sixth Floor, Boston MA 02111. (See travel and parking.) Our phone numbers and email addresses have not changed.

CCE, California State University-LA, and their partners announce the launching of the Los Angeles Urban Teacher Residency (LAUTR), a 14-month apprenticeship-style program for training and credentialing new teachers. Info meeting Thursday, Jan. 21, in King Hall at CSULA, 4-6pm.

Including Performance Assessments in Accountability Systems: A Review of Scale-up Efforts—The Nellie Mae Education Foundation and CCE are proud to bring you this field review. The purpose of this review is to understand previous efforts at scaling up the use of performance assessments across districts and states. Through systematic description and comparison of seven large-scale initiatives, as well as analogous efforts from teacher certification, medicine, and law, the paper identifies the strengths and vulnerabilities in each initiative. (More...)

Theodore Sizer, an original CCE Board member, died on October 21, 2009, in his home in Harvard MA. He was a giant of American education reform. See: In Memory of Ted Sizer.

Readiness Schools: 13 districts have been approved by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Education (EOE) and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE) and have accepted planning grants. Some districts have one school, some have multiple schools. CCE has been asked to provide technical assistance to 5 of these districts: Boston, Somerville, Revere, New Bedford and Lynn. On October 21 CCE conducted Day 1 of a two-day residency for all 13 districts, a program co-sponsored by EOE and ESE. Over 100 educators attended. See: Residency Agenda and Location.

As part of its School Turnaround  research project, nationally respected Mass Insight selected and analyzed five cases across the country of “dramatic, comprehensive turnaround of America's worst-performing schools” to look at particularly promising approaches. They identify Duggan Middle School, in Springfield MA, as one of these “turnaround” cases. They single out CCE, Duggan’s supporting partner, for its approach and accomplishments. Read how Mass Insight describes CCE’s role in Duggan’s turnaround.

St. Louis announces creation of 5 Pilot schools. With support from CCE, St. Louis announces the creation of 5 Pilot elementary schools. (More...)

LA teachers union touts Pilots, praises CCE support. From the UTLA web site: “LAUSD is now the home to the Belmont Zone of Choice, an innovative pilot school program developed from the ground up by UTLA and a grassroots coalition of teachers and community groups.… In Los Angeles the innovative partnership was initiated by teachers and community members with the strong support from the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) in Boston, UTLA, and the Belmont Education Collaborative, a group of more than 25 local organizations.” (Read full article from UTLA.)

Pilot advocate Mónica García re-elected President of the L.A. Unified School District School Board. In remarks after her swearing in, García called for the District and community to take its reforms wider, citing the model of the Belmont Zone of Choice – what she called the “cradle of reform” in LAUSD – a Pilot schools project on which she has worked for over seven years, with support from CCE. (More...)

L.A. Pilot chosen as “Top of the Class" in national ranking. Newsweek magazine has selected the Los Angeles High School of the Arts as one of the top schools in the country, ranking it at #317 in its annual “Top of the Class" selection of best schools. That puts LAHSA in Newsweek’s top 1.3% of schools nationwide. LAHSA was created with close support from CCE.

Lack of Clarity Seen in Study of Boston Charters, by Dan French, letter in Education Week, February 11, 2009.

African-American leaders call for more Pilots, in a Boston Globe op-ed.

Demand for Pilot school placements far exceeds available spaces. Students who do not get their Pilot choice often leave BPS—CCE report.

The Essential Guide to Pilot Schools - CCE has published the first two in a series of guides to the workings of Pilot Schools.

New, revised CCE small schools planning guide available from Corwin Press.