What the Governor’s Talking about
Today
Tuesday, January 5,
2010
President Will Highlight
Woodrow Wilson
As part of a White House event celebrating the
importance of teachers in science, technology, engineering and math education,
President Obama on Wednesday will highlight the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s
Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowship as a model effort to inspire
students to excel in math and science.
The
president will cite the fellowship as an innovative program and announce the six
The W.K.
Kellogg Foundation-funded fellowship program provides promising future teachers
with an exemplary, intensive master’s degree program in education and places
those fellows in hard-to-staff middle and high schools for a minimum of three
years. The fellowship will prepare 240 teachers over a span of two years
beginning in 2011. Through this program, approximately 90,000 students
will receive high-quality instruction in math and science from fellows during
their first three years in the classroom.
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