Eleven Designs for "New American Schools" Win Awards

In July, the New American Schools Development Corporation (NSDC), selected 
eleven design teams out of almost 700 applicants to create their visions 
of a new generation of American schools.  At the request of the White 
House, the private foundation, NASDC was created to raise funds for the 
design and implementation of a series of new schools which would "break 
the mold" and reinvent American education.

The winning designs outlined how students would meet world-class education 
standards in at least five core subject areas identified by the national 
education goals, and have students leave school prepared for responsible 
citizenship, productive employment, and further learning.  In addition, 
the designs had to operate on a budget not exceeding that of conventional 
schools.  
 
Many of the winning proposals called for extensive use of technology 
including interactive instruction, multimedia, CD-ROM and other data 
bases, and telecommunication networks.  The eleven winning designs are:

    -- ATLAS Communities - Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Norfolk, Virginia,  
       Prince George's County, Maryland, and Gorham, Maine.

    -- the Bensenville Community Design - Bensenville, Ilinois

    -- the College for Human Services - seven to 30 schools in Arizona,  
       California, Illinois, Mississippi, Washington, DC., and New York  
       City.

    -- Community Learning Centers of Minnesota - Rothsay and St. Cloud  
       school districts, North Branch Public Schools, Minnesota.

    -- the Co-NECT School - Sarah Greenwood School, K-5 elementary school,  
       Boston, Woodland Street Community School, K-6 inner-city school,  
       Worcester, Massachusetts

    -- Expeditionary Learning - at least one new charter school and  
       several existing ones in Portland, Maine, Boston, New York,  
       Decatur, Georgia, and Douglas County, Colorado

    -- the Los Angeles Learning Centers - one Los Angeles Learning Center  
       to be designed, the second, a complex of feeder schools.

    -- the Modern Red Schoolhouse - schools in Columbus, Beech Grove,  
       Greentown, and Indianapolis, Indiana, Kayenta, Arizona, and  
       Charlotte, North Carolina

    -- the National Alliance for Restructuring Education - 243 schools in  
       seven states by 1995.

    -- the Odyssey Project - Gaston County, North Carolina

    -- Roots and Wings - four elementary schools in Lexington Park, 
       Maryland
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