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GSE Profiles
 | Richard Sterling
Adjunct Professor
Language and Literacy, Society and Culture
Office: 5607 Tolman Hall
Phone: 510-301-3606
Email: rsterling at berkeley.edu
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R
ichard Sterling is the Director of Professional Programs and Adjunct Professor in Language and Literacy, Society and Culture. He is also the executive director emeritus 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 Funds 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. 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). Mr. Sterling currently chairs the advisory group to the College Board's National Commission on Writing in America's Families, Schools, and Colleges.
Cand. Phil., New York University; English Education;
B.A. City College of the City University of New York
Areas of Specialization / Interests
Information Technology
Learning
Literacy
Professional Development for Educators
School-University Collaboration
Teacher Development
Technology and Schools
Writing and Literature
Last Modified: 8/19/10
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