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"My primary interest is to keep alive the idea that the purpose of education is to nurture each individual's and the nation's heart, mind, soul, and sense of human possibility, not just our nation's position in the global economy."
-Jacqueline AncessJacqueline Ancess
Dr. Ancess has been a director of the foundation since 2003. She is co-director of the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching (NCREST) at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research has focused on urban school reform, small high schools, teacher learning, performance assessment, and accountability.
A sampling of her recent publications include: Implementing Small Theme High Schools in New York City: Great Intentions and Great Tensions (Fall, 2006 Harvard Educational Review); Beating the Odds: High Schools as Communities of Commitment (2003, Teachers College Press). She is co-author of The Julia Richman Education Complex: Creating Successful Small Schools from a Failing Urban High School (2004, Stanford University); Educational Leadership; and Making School Completion Integral to School Purpose & Design (2001, Harvard Civil Rights Project & Achieve Inc. Conference on Dropouts).
During her more than twenty years in the New York City school system, she taught English in the South Bronx, was founding director of Manhattan East, a small public junior high school in District 4, East Harlem and Director of Educational Options in Districts 2 and 3, where she was responsible for school choice, big school restructuring, small school development. She is the recipient of the New York Alliance for the Arts Schools & Culture Award for her work at Manhattan East.
Dr. Ancess received a Ed.D. in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University; (1997); M.A. in English Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana (1967); and B.A. in English Literature, Hunter College, CUNY (1965).
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