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Democratic chair candidates share strategies with mayors BY WILL LESTER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Candidates for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee talked Tuesday about the need to rebuild the party from the ground up as they pitched themselves to Democratic mayors. Howard Dean, a 2004 presidential candidate, reminded the mayors that he has run presidential campaigns, raised millions of dollars and organ ized voters throughout the country. “This is all about local politics,” Dean told the National Conference of Democratic Mayors at a Washington hotel. “If you want to win, you have to start at the bottom.” Dean, the former governor of Vermont, got the endorsement Tues day of the entire DNC delegation from Florida as well as the state Democratic chairs of Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma, Washington state and Vermont. Simon Rosenberg, founder of the centrist New Democrat Network, talked about the need to organize in all 50 states and touted his abilities in fund raising and devising ad cam paigns. Rosenberg also has been col lecting endorsements, including the backing of former DNC chair Joe An drew and former Dean campaign manager JoeTHppi. Former Texas Rep. Martin Frost boasted of his leadership of the De mocrats’ congressional campaign committee, in which he raised $80 million over two election cycles. Frost has been endorsed by veteran Demo cratic organizer Robert Strauss and House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland. Tim Roemer, the former Indiana congressman who is more conserva tive than the other candidates, said Democrats “need a chairman who can go into all 50 states and help Democ rats win elections.” He said he has confidence DNC members will not have a “litmus test” on issues like abortion; Roemer opposes some abor tion procedures. He has collected the backing of several prominent De mocrats, including Louisiana Sen. John Breaux and California Rep. Ellen Tauscher. Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb reminded the mayors that De mocrats ignore many black votes when they write off whole regions of the country, such as the South. David Leland, a former Ohio party chair, said he helped deliver Ohio for Presi dent Clinton eight years ago and can help the Democrats again. Democratic activist Donnie Fowler said the key to party victory is “listening to people from outside Washington.” “The question about Dean is, while he will have a third of the vote easily, can he get to 50 percent?” Fowler asked. Then he referred to Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign, with its huge grass-roots organization and more than $40 million raised. “Dean had the oranges,” Fowler said, “but he couldn’t make orange juice.” Education: Program adapts Japanese method Continued from page 1 counties. Six of the districts are classi fied as high-need, meaning that at least 20 percent of the students come from families with incomes below the poverty line. About 240 teachers are expected to participate. “We’re going to do an adapted ver sion, an Oregonian version, of this Japanese lesson study,” said Susan Hardwick, a geography professor and the CAS co-director of the project. “We’re going to use video and online support groups to extend it to middle and secondary teachers,” she added. “I think it’s going to be really exciting.” QCTeach is based on the research of Marilyn Olson, coordinator of middle and secondary teacher educa tion in the COE. Olson worked on a pilot program in the summer of 2003 and will be co-directing this program with Hardwick. “(The program is) for teachers who don’t ordinarily get financial, emotional or intellectual support from universities like the U of O,” said Hardwick. “We feel like all teachers are under so much pressure right now.” The project directors hope to help schools with limited resources meet the demands of the No Child Left Behind Act. Hardwick expects the program will gain national recog nition and expand after the initial three-year period. “The legislation in Washington, the No Child Left Behind push, is re ally forcing teachers to become bet ter equipped to handle the content that they teach,” she said. “We wanted to write a grant that would support them, pay their tuition, pay their travel and give them the sup port they need to enhance their content knowledge.” The project proposal drew the at tention of U.S. Department of Educa tion officials, who awarded $412,693 to the effort in the form of a FIPSE, or Fund for the Improvement of Postsec ondary Education, grant. The grant is one of three awarded to different projects at the University in 2004 and contributes to QCTeach’s total budget of $655,549. The state’s education department gave a separate grant of $69,984. The CAS will fund about 37 percent of the project, according to the press release. “We have content experts in differ ent departments helping us with this,” Hardwick said. “(They’re) Tim Bobosky | Photographer Marilyn Olson, coordinator of middle and secondary teacher education at the College of Education and co-director of the QCTeach program, helps facilitate a meeting of content specialists. professors who you see lecturing in the big courses or working with the gradu ate students. Now five of them are go ing to help us work with teachers. “Those five faculty are part of a larger initiative that we created a couple years ago called ECAT, the Education Careers Advising Team,” Hardwick added. “These are faculty who, for free, meet with students regularly who want to be teachers. They’re advisors and supporters of future teachers. ” Olson said recruitment of teachers will take place in the next two weeks. “What we hope to do is to have the opportunity to study the re sults," Olson said. She said she wants to determine “how will this help the kids?” “(Teachers) don’t normally have the time to exchange ideas,” Lizy Ma dathil, a content specialist in mathe matics, said. “This gives them a chance.” The deans of the CAS and the COE responded in a press release. “We want to improve access to the latest and best information in key subject areas — math, science, the social sciences, language arts and English as a second language — without additional cost to schools,” CAS Dean Joe Stone said. “Teachers put out hour after hour and really don’t have the time or the assistance to study why some things work and others don’t. Certainly not at the level that we want to examine,” COE Dean Marty Kaufman said. “We’re trying to un lock the dynamic between teaching and learning so that teachers can reach more students.” A lesson study such as the one this program aims to accomplish has nev er been used before, Hardwick said. “We have a whole different model that’s evolving for the proj ect,” Hardwick said. “International ly, lesson studies have been used for teacher development, but not in the unique way that Marilyn piloted and we’re going to build on in this project.” In addition, Hardwick said, this is the first time the COE and the CAS have had a big grant together. 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