Book 38

In the early decades of the 20th century, Grenville L. Winthrop, a New Yorker and Harvard graduate, assembled a remarkable collection of paintings and drawings by French, British and American artists of the 19th century. They include the finest group of works by Ingres outside France and major canvasses and sheets by David, Gericault, Delacroix, Moreau and Renoir. British works, beginning with Blake and Flaxman, include important Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Burne-Jones, Holman Hunt and Rossetti, and a suite of masterful drawings by Beardsley. The Americans examples include Whistler, Sargent and Winslow Homer. Upon his death, in 1942 Winthrop's collection passed to Harvard University Art Museums in Cambridge, MA.

This is the story of how four large reform organizations in the USA came together to form a partnership known as ATLAS (Authentic Teaching, Learning, and Assessment). It provides a glimpse into the individual workings of these organizations and how they uncovered the craft of school reform.