The National Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy (NCSWL), now in its tenth year, has received a grant of $1.1 million for fiscal year 1995 from the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) of the U.S. Department of Education. The center, one of the national educational research centers funded by OERI, is located at the Graduate School of Education, University of California at Berkeley, with a site at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The mission of the center is to improve the understanding of how writing is best learned and taught--from the early years of schooling through adulthood.
Through its ongoing relationship with the National Writing Project, a national network of successful teachers of writing, the center involves classroom teachers in helping to shape the center's research agenda and in making use of findings from the research. Underlying the center's research effort is the belief that research both must move into the classroom and come from it. Thus the center supports "practice-sensitive research" for "research-sensitive practice."
For more information about the center's research, publications, and activities, contact the National Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy, 5513 Tolman Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94704-1670; phone: 510/643-7022; e-mail: writ@violet.berkeley.edu; gopher server: gopher.berkeley.edu (under "Research Units"). *