Building an Infrastructure for Generative and Sustained Change in Science Instruction in Urban Schools

1997年，美国国家科学基金会支持创建了城市学校学习技术中心（LeTUS）;这是一个独特的合作伙伴关系，专注于改善城市儿童具有挑战性的学习机会。LeTUS汇集了底特律和芝加哥两个学区，以及密歇根大学和西北大学的研究小组。这种伙伴关系为发展和维持公立学校和大学背景下的专业人员之间的广泛合作创造了基础设施，致力于改善城市学校的教学和学习。这份ABR提案总结了LeTUS四年来的成就，并为接下来的十八个月工作制定了计划。

In 1997, the National Science Foundation support created the Center for LearningTechnologies in Urban Schools (LeTUS); a unique partnership focused on improvingopportunities for challenging learning for urban children. LeTUS brings together twourban school districts, Detroit and Chicago, and research groups from the University ofMichigan and Northwestern University. This partnership has created an infrastructure fordeveloping and sustaining broad-based collaboration among professionals from publicschools and university contexts, committed to improving teaching and learning in urbanschools. This ABR proposal summarizes LeTUS' four years of accomplishments andcharts plans for an additional eighteen months of work.