Allan Collins, D. Joseph and K. Bielaczyc, "Design research: Theoretical and methodological issues,"Journal of the Learning Sciences, 13(1), 2004.
G. Alfred Hess Jr., "Ending social promotion: A signature reform," in Alexander Russo (ed.), School Reform in Chicago: Lessons in Policy and Practice (Harvard Education Press, 2004); Hess, with students Elizabeth Charlton, Page Hayton, Leema Kuhn, Ben Rubenstein, Tamara Smith, Seann Verde and Ellen Wang, "What works with African American students: Learning from successful District 65 Teachers," The Lighthouse Partnership, October 2003. This report is available on the Center for Urban School Policy web site.
E. de St. Aubin, Dan P. McAdams and T.C. Kim (eds.), The Generative Society (American Psychological Association Press, 2004); A. Lieblich, McAdams and R. Josselson (eds.), Healing Plots: The Narrative Basis of Psychotherapy (American Psychological Association Press, 2004); J.J. Bauer and McAdams, "Growth goals, maturity and well-being,"Developmental Psychology, 40, 2004; McAdams and J.J. Bauer, "Gratitude in modern life: Its manifestations and development," in R.A. Emmons and M. McCullough (eds.), The Psychology of Gratitude (Oxford University Press, 2004).
James E. Rosenbaum, "It's time to tell the kids: If you don't do well in high school, you won't do well in college (or on the job)," American Educator, spring 2004.
James P. Spillane, Standards Deviation: How Schools Misunderstand Education Policy (Harvard University Press, 2004).
Uri J. Wilensky, guest editor, International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, special issue on agent-based modeling, vol. 8 issue 1, 2003.
Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, E., R.L. Coley and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, "Child care and low-income children's development: Direct and moderated effects,"Child Development, 75, 2004.
PRESENTATIONS
The Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling personnel gave a panel presentation at the April meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
Alllan Collins gave an invited talk at the Stanford Center for Innovation in Learning in January.
G. Alfred Hess Jr. presented a report on Reading Achievement to the Board of Education of the North School District 112 in Highland Park (Ill.) in March. He is also one of two keynote speakers at the May 17 Chicago Historical Society program on the Impact of Brown v. Board of Education on its 50th Anniversary. At the April AERA meeting he presented "Standards, Standardization and Urban School Improvement," and he spoke on "examining an Urban District's Finances for Compensatory Effects" at the American Education Finance Association's annual meeting.
Dan P. McAdams was featured on WGN's news in February discussing his research in personality and narratives.
Uri J. Wilensky gave the plenary address at the May International Conference on Complex Systems. AWARDS AND HONORS
Emma Adam was awarded a W.T. Grant Scholars Award from the W.T. Grant Foundation, a five-year mentored award designed to promote the careers of promising junior faculty. The award provides salary support, research support and travel for her project that examines how situational, personality and biological variables combine to predict the emergence of affective disorders over the transition from late adolescence to adulthood.
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale received the Martin e. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for research Excellence, established by Joseph A. Walder in 2002. She has also been named associate editor of the Journal of Adolescent Health, the journal of the Society for Adolescent Medicine. In addition, her article on the effects on children of mothers who transition from welfare to work received the 2004 Society for Research on Adolescence Social Policy Award.
Fay Lomax Cook has been invited to be a visiting scholar at Sciences Po University in Paris, a prestigious French institution noted for policy and political science scholarship.
Greg J. Duncan was awarded a Russell Sage Foundation visiting scholar in residence fellowship for 2004-2005. He will spend the year at the New York -based foundation.He has also been invited to serve on the Social Sciences and Populations Study Section of the National Institutes of Health.
Carol D. Lee will be a fellow next year at Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
James P. Spillane has been promoted to tenured full professor.
GRANTS
Emma Adam, William T. Grant Foundation, "Everyday experiences, physiological stress and the emergence of affective disorder over the transition to early adulthood: A longitudinal study" ($287,198).
Daniel C. Edelson, National Science Foundation, "My World: A geographic information system for learners" ($871,275).
John P. Kretzmann, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, "Integrating ABCD principles into grant making practices" ($50,000).
Paula Olszewski-Kubilius, McCormick Tribune Foundation, "Civic Education Project" ($30,000).
Ben Watson, Uri J. Wilensky, National Science Foundation, "Procedural Modeling of Urban Environments" ($1,600,000).