EXEMPLARY EDUCATION PROJECTS AWARDS
Division of Education Programs
Announced: April 2002

ALABAMA

Auburn University, Auburn (Outright: $210,000, Match: $15,000)
Director: John Saye, (334) 844-6891
Project: Reasoning About Critical Issues of the Civil Rights Movement
Description: The development of A website, CD-ROM, and professional development activities for school teachers on important issues and events of the Civil Rights movement in the United States.

University of California, Irvine (Outright: $172,145)
Director: Julia R. Lupton, (949) 824-6716
Project: Content Counts: Reading and Writing Across the Humanities
Description: A series of teaching guides, in print and electronic form, for the K-12 language arts and social studies classroom.

George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (Outright: $225,000, Match: $10,000)
Director: James Goldgeier, (202) 994-6342
Project: Summer Institutes and Cold War Teaching Resource
Description: The development of an online resource for assimilating the scholarship of Cold War history into the high school classroom.

National Park Foundation, Washington, D.C. (Outright: $150,000, Match: $50,000)
Director: Richard Rabinowitz, (718) 499-6500
Project: War for Freedom Project
Description: Training for National Park guides and school teachers in the use of historical documentation on the broad contexts of the Civil War and Emancipation.

The Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C. (Outright: $250,000)
Director: Dawn McAndrews, (202) 547-3230, ext. 2101
Project: Theatre History Initiative
Description: A three-year collaboration involving The Shakespeare Theatre, American University, and public school teachers in the development of an online resource for the teaching of theater history.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, Washington, D.C. (Outright: $50,000, Match: $50,000)
Director: J.B. Dyas, (202) 364-7272
Project: Jazz in America: The National Jazz Curriculum
Description: A project to continue development, on a national basis, of an Internet-based jazz curriculum for grades 5, 8, and 11.

Shakespeare & Company, Lenox (Outright: $150,000)
Director: Mary Hartman, (413 637-1199, ext. 103
Project: Discovering MacBeth: A Multi-Media Guide
Description: A project to create a multimedia guide to MacBeth in print, video (VHS), and digital (CD-ROM, DVD and website) formats.

University of Michigan, Dearborn (Outright: $210,000, Match: $10,000)
Director: Jonathan Smith, (313) 436-9187
Project: The Automobile in American Life: Web Site and Online Archive
Description: A website and online archive of educational materials relating to the automobile and the auto industry in the twentieth-century United States.

CUNY, Graduate Center, New York (Outright: $250,000)
Director: Joshua Brown, (212) 817-1967
Project: Learning to Look: Visual Evidence and the U.S. Past in the New Media Classroom
Description: A two-year professional development program for school and college teachers seeking to integrate visual materials and digital resources into the American Studies classroom.

SUNY, College at Cortland, Cortland (Outright: $167,198)
Director: Jean LeLoup, (607) 753-2022
Project: FLTeach: A Model for Professional Development and Foreign Language Instruction
Description: The continuation and expansion of an electronic discussion list and web-based resource which has served foreign language teachers for almost a decade.
WEB ADDRESS: http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/

North Carolina Central University, Durham (Outright: $225,000, Match: $10,000)
Director: Laurel Sneed, (919) 544-2796
Project: Let it Shine: Enhancing the Teaching of African American History at the Elementary and Middle School Levels
Description: A project to enhance elementary and middle school learning about African American experiences in the antebellum periods.

Brown University, Providence (Outright: $208,893)
Director: Susan W. Graseck, (401) 863-3155
Project: Curriculum Series for World History
Description: The development of four curriculum units on topics of world history and an extensive outreach effort to bring these resources to classrooms across the country.

George Mason University, Fairfax (Outright: $190,000, Match: $30,000)
Director: Roy Rosenzweig, (703) 993-1427
Project: World History Matters: Teaching and Learning through Online Primary Sources
Description: The development of an online resource center for world history that includes primary documents from many cultures and teaching strategies for using them effectively.

University of Virginia, Charlottesville (Outright: $153,265, Match: $15,000)
Director: William G. Thomas, III, (434) 924-7834
Project: The Geography of Slavery in Virginia
Description: The expansion of an existing database on advertisements for runaway slaves published over a century, combined with teacher training on the uses of the database.