$17-Million in Grants Pay for Teacher Education
December 20, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation will award $17-million in graduate-school stipends to strengthen teacher education and encourage good teachers to work at the neediest schools, reports The Washington Post.
The first fellowships, of $30,000 apiece, will be awarded to aspiring teachers in spring 2009, and fellows will begin teaching the following year. Recipients must teach for three years at struggling schools, the newspaper says.
Several funds, including the Lilly Endowment, the Annenberg Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation, have supported the effort.
“What we’re really trying to do is to dignify the teaching profession and give it status,” said Arthur E. Levine, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation president and former president of Teachers College, at Columbia University.
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