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portraitRichard Sterling
Adjunct Professor
Language and Literacy, Society and Culture

Office: 2105 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone: 510-642-0963
Email: rsnwp@berkeley.edu
Website: www.writingproject.org

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Phone: 510-642-0963
Email: rsnwp@berkeley.edu

R
ichard Sterling is the executive director of the National Writing Project. Formerly he was a faculty member at Lehman College, where he was also director and founder of the Institute for Literacy Studies, a research unit of CUNY. He also directed and founded the New York City Writing Project and the New York City Mathematics Project. In 1992 he received a grant from the DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund to develop a national project of teacher research groups in 12 cities across the U.S. As national director of this Urban Sites Network, he worked with teachers and faculty from all regions of the country to develop a body of practitioner-based research documenting educational practice. Richard Sterling is working to extend the work of the Urban Sites project to both rural and urban settings and to develop ways to close the gap between university researchers in education and practitioners in the field. His publication highlights include co-authoring ”The National Writing Project: Scaling up and Scaling Down,’ in Expanding the Reach of Reform: Perspectives from Leaders in the Scale-Up of Educational Reform (RAND, 2004). He is currently working on projects for new teachers under a grant from the Stone Foundation and on issues of adolescent literacy under a grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Since 2003, Mr. Sterling has chaired the advisory group to the College Board's National Commission on Writing in America's Families, Schools, and Colleges.



Degrees
Cand. Phil., New York University; English Education;
B.A. City College of the City University of New York

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Areas of Specialization / Interests
Development of Professional Learning Communities
Information Technology
Learning
Literacy
Professional Development for Educators
School-University Collaboration
Teacher Development
Technology and Schools
Writing and Literature

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Last Modified: 2/6/06