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CCMS Partners

Established in 1985, AAAS Project 2061 is a leader in articulating science standards and developing criteria to analyze the content basis and pedagogical sensibility of science curricula.
Through its Benchmarks for Science Literacy and its analysis of science and mathematics curriculum materials, Project 2061 aims for the highest standards possible in science and mathematics education.
AAAS as a whole offers rich scientific, technical, and education resources for the Center through its interdisciplinary programs, its worldwide membership, and its expertise working in a variety of formal and informal settings with educators and students who are diverse in ethnicity, culture, language, and gender.

Michigan State University's elementary and secondary teacher education program has been at the top of the rankings in the U.S. News & World Report survey for nine consecutive years. Its curriculum and instruction program is highly ranked as well.
The university has a long history of collaboration with local schools, including a requirement that all prospective teachers complete a full-year teaching internship.
Faculty and graduate students have worked with local schools on a number of research projects relevant to the work of the Center, including research on teachers' use of curriculum materials in planning and classroom teaching, the impact of curriculum materials on student learning, and the role of materials and professional development on formative assessment.

Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy has been ranked among the top schools in the nation for research in the 2002 U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings.
The university is a leader in the field of cognitive science, creating the nation's first graduate program in Learning Sciences. A model for programs at other institutions, this program provides interdisciplinary training in curricular, technological, and social policy innovations aimed at improving education.
Education faculty have worked with teachers and administrators in the Chicago public schools to investigate the process of collaborative design and problem-solving.

One of the nation's leading teaching and research universities, the University of Michigan is a pioneer in technological development for instruction.
The School of Education has been ranked as one of the top 10 schools in the nation for the past 10 years in the U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings.
Faculty members have developed strong ties with local school districts and have been instrumental in helping to bring about systemic reform in science education in the Detroit Public School System.
School of Education researchers, along with researchers at Northwestern University, are engaged in a partnership to create science curriculum materials for middle school students that are based on AAAS Project 2061's benchmarks and instructional criteria.