• $2,400,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Duration 2 years)

  Digital Media & Learning

  NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Richard Arum is a professor of sociology at New York University and Program Director of Educational Research at the Social Science Research Council, where he created the Research Alliance for New York City, a consortium of educational stakeholders that evaluates and assesses public school improvement efforts. This grant funds the documentation of the three major demonstration sites of the digital media and learning initiative: Quest schools and learning networks in Chicago and New York City; and the YOUmedia sites in Chicago, New York, and Washington D.C.; and modest documentation of the design of ten new learning lab sites based on the Chicago YOUmedia model.

• $300,000Active Strategy

  2011 (Duration 1 year)

  Digital Media & Learning

  NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Professor Richard Arum is a professor of sociology in the New York University's Department of Sociology and a professor of education in its Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. He and his colleagues will use this grant to document and evaluate the Quest schools in New York City and Chicago - public middle schools that employ an innovative, hands-on approach to learning based on principles of game design that fosters greater student engagement. The evaluation will focus on students' backgrounds; the quality and effectiveness of daily school practices; and students' performance and learning outcomes.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded New York University $2,700,000 between 2010 and 2013.