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A First Look at What We Can Learn From High Performing School Districts: An Analysis of TIMSS Data From the First in the World Consortium, August, 1999

Acknowledgments

The authors of this report represent a unique collaboration among local school districts, the U.S. Department of Education (ED), the Education Statistics Services Institute (ESSI), and the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. We wish to acknowledge all those who contributed to this report, especially the teachers, students, administrators, and parents of the First in the World Consortium. Without their dedication and commitment to improving math and science achievement, this report would not exist.

We would also like to thank Erin C. Massie, Joanna Wertheimer, and Mark White of ESSI and Blase Masini of NCREL who provided valuable research assistance. J.W. McConnell, Eugene H. Owen of NCES, Kitty Mak of ESSI, Patrick Gonzales of ESSI, and John Luczak of ED all gave their time and expertise by reviewing draft reports and providing comments and suggestions. We are particularly grateful to Ron Varnum, from Colgate University, who did the final formatting and quality control work on the report. Christopher Sheedy, of ED, provided editorial services.

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