Acknowledgments

 

This report was made possible by grants from the National Science Foundation. The authors of this report wish to thank:

 

§         Ms. Clara Tolbert, former Director of the Philadelphia Urban Systemic Initiative, for all her years of collaboration and support for this project.

 

§         Dr. Alice Jordan for her seven years as co-director of the project.

 

§         Drs. Tom Clark, Robert Offenberg, and Lori Westler, from the School District of Philadelphia, for their support in collecting and analyzing the data.

 

§         All the IMP teachers whose hard work and dedication made the success of this project  possible.

          

§         Drs. Dan Fendel, Diane Resek, Sherry Fraser and Lynne Alper, the authors of the Interactive Mathematics Program.