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Transforming remedial education at the college level: The Dana Center and national partners release joint statement
Posted on December 12, 2012

Dana Center's New Mathways Project announces codevelopment partners
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Posted on October 24, 2012

Cranston Herald article highlights Dana Center's work with Cranston Public Schools
Posted on September 26, 2012

ACE (A Community for Education) expands to serve 2,000 Central Texas children
Posted on September 24, 2012

First set of CCSS-aligned, prototype mathematics assessment tasks now available
Posted on September 13, 2012

CCSS-aligned assessments for algebra and geometry
Posted on June 13, 2012

Texas Homeless Education Office director Barbara Wand James quoted in El Paso Times
Posted on May 30, 2012

New Mathways Project partnership generates a buzz
Posted on May 23, 2012

Dana Center joins with Texas Association of Community Colleges to enhance mathematics developmental education [pdf 136kb]
Posted on May 9, 2012

Webinar: Introduction of the New Mathways Project
Posted on April 20, 2012

Making the promise of upward mobility through education a reality
Posted on January 23, 2012

Dana Center director's work featured in book about positive peer pressure
Posted on December 15, 2011

AISD announces plans to expand literacy campaign, recognizes ACE for its "strong results" in early literacy intervention
Posted on November 15, 2011

Dana Center and Agile Mind, Inc. launch The Mathematics Common Core Toolbox
Posted on November 14, 2011

Dana Center's Cindy Schneider quoted in Austin American-Statesman article on Texas eighth-graders' math achievement
Posted on November 7, 2011

Coast to coast: Dana Center work stretches from Rhode Island to San Francisco
Posted on September 14, 2011

Dana Center's work with B.F. Terry High School highlighted on NASSP website
Posted on September 12, 2011

Noyce scholars strive to make a difference in high-needs schools
Posted on August 23, 2011

New national commission to help reshape the future of community colleges
Posted on July 24, 2011

Texas Homeless Education Office's Vicky Dill interviewed about signs of homelessness in students
Posted on July 19, 2011

Dana Center's Vanessa Westbrook part of team developing next-generation science standards
Posted on May 4, 2011

Dana Center in the news for work to implement Common Core State Standards
Posted on April 28, 2011

New math glossary iPad app available on iTunes
Posted on April 22, 2011

Coming Soon: Common Core implementation tools and strategies
Posted on March 24, 2011

Dana Center’s Erica Moreno receives Outstanding Staff Award
Posted on March 15, 2011

Dana Center director supports call for common core curriculum
Posted on March 11, 2011

Rhode Island media continue to report on Dana Center’s work in the state
Posted on February 24, 2011

Dana Center director's work cited in Inside Higher Ed article
Posted on February 17, 2011

Learning and the Adolescent Mind: A new website from the Dana Center and Agile Mind
Posted on February 16, 2011

Dana Center director receives Texas Exes Teaching Award
Posted on February 3, 2011

Science team lead Vanessa Westbrook interviewed in article on increasing diversity in STEM fields
Posted on February 3, 2011

State Board of Education adopts Advanced Quantitative Reasoning as a new fourth-year math course
Posted on January 26, 2011

Former ACE tutor Ashley Pérez publishes young adult novel
Posted on January 26, 2011

Dana Center work in Rhode Island continues to garner raves
Posted on December 21, 2010

Article by Texas Homeless Education Office staff member Vicky Dill published in Educational Leadership
Posted on November 4, 2010

Cullinane/Treisman paper on the Statway published in proceedings of Developmental Education Conference
Posted on November 3, 2010

Agile Mind founder and CEO Linda Chaput named one of Fortune magazine’s 10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs
Posted on October 7, 2010

THEO's Vicky Dill interviewed in EducationNews.org
Posted on October 1, 2010

Science team leader Vanessa Westbrook honored by Science Teachers Association of Texas
Posted on October 1, 2010

The Statway Initiative spotlighted on Opportunity Equation site
Posted on October 1, 2010

Advanced Mathematical Decision Making proving popular in Wichita Falls
Posted on September 8, 2010

Senior Fellow Cathy Seeley’s Faster Isn’t Smarter receives award from the Association of Educational Publishers
Posted on September 3, 2010

Selected Older Spotlights

Academic Youth Development gets rave reviews in New Bedford, Massachusetts
Posted on August 26, 2010

ACE featured on MyFox Austin
Posted on August 17, 2010

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion piece on need to reform community college math courses
Posted on April 23, 2010

Dana Center's work in Rhode Island the subject of two recent Providence Journal articles
Posted on April 23, 2010

Dana Center's Cathy Seeley discusses Common Core State Standards Initiative on Tavis Smiley radio show
Posted on April 14, 2010

U. S. Secretary of Education praises Manor New Tech High as model for reaching underserved students
Posted on April 2, 2010

Dana Center staff publish articles on critical transitions in mathematics
Posted on March 11, 2010

Academic Youth Development awareness site
Posted on January 20, 2010

Phyllis Ann Bradley Kirkpatrick, 1958–2009
Posted on December 9, 2009

Dana Center contributes to the Common Core State Standards Initiative
Posted on October 30, 2009

Dana Center's work in Rhode Island is attracting notice
Posted on October 1, 2009

Dana Center director presents on strategies to restructure high school mathematics content and practices
Posted on August 25, 2009

Faster Isn't Smarter: Senior Fellow Cathy Seeley signs copies of her new book at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual conference
Posted on July 10, 2009

Pigs, parrots, and purple purses: ACEE staff’s favorite read-aloud books for kids and parents
Posted on July 2, 2009

Dana Center’s Essential Science Concepts for Exit-Level TAKS—and talented high school science teacher—get rave reviews from Wichita Falls High School seniors
Posted on July 2, 2009

Dana Center profiled in Insight
Posted on June 10, 2009

Harvard Education Letter highlights Dana Center's Academic Youth Development program
Posted on May 8, 2009

The Next Frontier: World Class Math and Science Education for Texas
Posted on March 8, 2009

New website for K-12 math benchmarks
Posted on June 16, 2008

Scaling Up: The Dana Center Turns 15
Posted on May 15, 2008

Dana Center director Uri Treisman speaks at NSF event on community colleges
Posted on April 16, 2008

Practices Worthy of Attention
Posted on February 4, 2008

Fourth-year math course up and running
Posted on October 3, 2007

Dana Center position statements supporting a rigorous 4th year of mathematics and science for Texas high school students
Posted on September 21, 2006

Uri Treisman named Scientist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation
Posted on February 16, 2006

The Charles A. Dana Center's response to the Thomas B. Fordham Institute's The State of the State Science Standards: 2005
Posted on January 30, 2006

University of Texas at Austin Mathematics Department named 2005 Example of Excelencia
Posted on November 4, 2005

Dana Center marks decade of innovation in advancing opportunities for all Texas students
Posted on December 2, 2002

Tell students: Yes, you can
Posted on February 7, 2001