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Public Affairs 212-207-6273
New Fellowships to Improve Teacher Education
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation, with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York
and the Annenberg
Foundation launched a $6 million effort on December 19, 2007
to improve teacher education and to attract more of the country’s
top graduates and mid-career professionals to teaching careers at
high-poverty and struggling schools. Read
the press release.
The new Leonore Annenberg Teaching Fellowship will provide a $30,000
stipend and one year of graduate education at four of the nation’s
top teacher-education programs to candidates who agree to teach
for three years in low-income schools.
Participating institutions—Stanford University, the University
of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, and University of Washington—were
selected based on their innovative teaching preparation programs,
existing partnerships with high-need schools, and their commitment
to follow-up mentoring and rigorous evaluation.
“If we really want to continue to improve student achievement
we have no choice but to improve teaching—the Fellowship does
just that,” said Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation
of New York. “The new program captures Leonore Annenberg’s
commitment to inspiring, encouraging, and supporting the professional
men and women who are shaping our next generation.”
An important component of Carnegie Corporation’s efforts to
create pathways to educational and economic opportunity is the foundation’s
focus on strategies to improve the recruitment, preparation and
retention of high-quality teachers and educational leaders.
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