(Vol. 1, No. 1 - Winter 1996/1997)
The Focused Reporting Team
Changing Schools in Louisville is written and produced by the
Focused Reporting Project, a team of education writers and researchers
supported by a grant from the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. The school
district supports the work of the Focused Reporting Project in many ways;
however, the reports produced by the team are written independently, without
prior approval of the district, and are solely the responsibility of the
team.
- Barnett Berry is associate professor of educational
leadership at the University of South Carolina and author of several books
and studies on school reform and teacher professionalism. He is currently
on leave to work with the National Commission on Teaching and America's
Future.
- Anne C. Lewis is one of the nation's most experienced
and widely read education writers. She is the author of Believing in
Ourselves: Progress and Struggle in Urban Middle School Reform (1995)
and the Washington columnist for Phi Delta KAPPAN.
- John Norton, a freelance education writer, is editor
of the Focused Reporting Project. His newspaper reporting career spanned
15 years, covering public and higher education. From 1990-96 he served as
vice president for information at the Southern Regional Education Board.
From 1986-90 he directed the S.C. Center for Teacher Recruitment.
- Holly Holland, who covered JCPS for the Louisville
Courier-Journal, is a freelancer and editor of two National Middle
Schools Association publications -- High Strides and Middle
Ground. Her book on KERA will be published by Heinneman Books in 1997.
The Focused Reporting Project will produce three more reports on middle
school reform in Louisville. Send letters to the editor, corrections, and
advice:
by mail to:
889 Virginia Circle NE,
Atlanta, GA 30306
by fax to:
(404) 607-7878, or
by e-mail to:
Norton@middleweb.com