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About The Daniel Tanner Foundation

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The Daniel Tanner Foundation was established in 2010 with the mission of advancing American public education, specifically with regard to the democratizing function and design of the curriculum of nonselective elementary schools and nonselective secondary schools of the comprehensive type.

Since its inception, the Foundation has expanded its activities to include the sponsorship and publication of research studies on educational problems, innovative educational projects and practices, and conference and seminar proceedings.

The Daniel Tanner Foundation News

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PROJECTS SUPPORTED BY THE DANIEL TANNER FOUNDATION

“Education Reform, Communities and Social Justice: Exploring the Intersections” national research conferences, 2016, 2017, and 2018. Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. For more information, go to  http://edandsocialjustice.wix.com/rutgersedconference

The University of South Carolina is pleased to announce the completion of its Secondary School Study exhibitions and catalog. To download a pdf of the exhibition catalog, go to http://www.ed.sc.edu/museum/secondary_study.html

The Daniel Tanner Foundation has supported the work of a number of scholarly associations, including the John Dewey Society, Society for Professors of Education, Society for the Study of Curriculum History, and Society of Professors of Curriculum.

Research grants have been awarded to Save Our Schools NJ (SOSNJ), a grassroots, all-volunteer organization of parents and other public education supporters who believe that every child in New Jersey should have access to a high-quality public education. The research that The Daniel Tanner Foundation funded consists of an analysis of New Jersey charter school demographic composition, funding, and spending relative to district public schools. The three resulting research reports are available at http://www.saveourschoolsnj.org/nj-charter-school-data/

The Daniel Tanner Foundation has supported such journals as Education and Culture and The High School Journal, and has published John Dewey’s Sources of a Science of Education(1929), which had gone out of print. The new edition (2013) contains John Dewey’s last published statement and a new Introduction.

Other projects supported by the Foundation include historic research conducted through the Museum of Education at the University of South Carolina, publications of the John Dewey Society including the official history of the John Dewey Society, Crusade for Democracy: Progressive Education at the Crossroads (rev. ed., SUNY Press, 2015) and the engagement of high school students in a cancer-research laboratory under a research professor at the University of South Florida.

The Foundation is presently considering research proposals spanning a wide range of areas, including teacher education and career education for high school students. Grants are renewable based upon progress, need and success.