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Frances
Rust is a professor and coordinator of Early Childhood and Elementary
Education Curricula in the Department of Teaching and Learning at New
York University. She is the winner of the 1985 AERA Outstanding
Dissertation Award, the recipient of the Teachers College Outstanding
Alumni Award (1998), and the recipient of the Association of Teacher
Educators 2001Award for Distinguished Research in Teacher Education.
Her research and teaching focus on teacher education and teachers’
research. Her most recent books are Taking Action through
Teacher Research (January 2003, Heinemann) which she edited
with Ellen Meyers, Guiding School Change: New Understandings of
the Role and Work of Change Agents which she edited with Helen
Friedus (2001,Teachers College Press), Changing Teaching,
Changing Schools: Bringing Early Childhood Practice into Public
Education (1993, Teachers College Press), and What
Matters Most: Improving Student Achievement (2000, NTPI), a
volume of teacher research co-edited with Ellen Meyers as part of her
work as advisor to the Teachers Network Leadership Institute. Rust
completed her doctoral work as well as a second master’s degree at
Teachers College, Columbia University . She completed her Masters in
the Art of Teaching and her Bachelor’s degree in English Literature at
Manhattanville College. |