Believing in Ourselves

Anne C. Lewis

aclewis@crosslink.net

"Whether parents and policymakers support charter schools, vouchers, or private contracts to run schools . . . they are really speaking out against systems that fail to put student achievement above all else. Everyone is culpable in not believing in the capacity of their students, but the low expectations and inappropriate instruction given minority and low-income students cannot be overcome school by school. It is a critical systemic problem." -- Anne C. Lewis



Anne C. Lewis is an education policy writer in Washington, D.C. area. Believing in Ourselves is the third report she has authored on the progress of the Clark initiative in five cities. She is also the author of Making It in the Middle, an overview of middle grades reform in urban schools. For five years, she edited High Strides, a bi-monthly publication on urban middle grades reform first published by the Education Writers Association, now by the National Middle Schools Association.

Ms. Lewis is the national columnist for Phi Delta Kappan magazine and authored Restructuring America's Schools for the American Association of School Administrators. She is also a member of the Focused Reporting Project teams in Long Beach, CA and Louisville, KY.


Read a High Strides interview with Anne Lewis

Read Anne Lewis' latest book:
Figuring It Out: Standards-Based Reforms in Urban Middle Grades (1999)


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