From: Hernandez, Angelita (GOV)
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 4:48 PM
Subject: What the Governor's Talking about Today

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What the Governor’s Talking about Today

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

 

President Will Highlight Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowship Tomorrow

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 Michigan universities that have been selected to participate in the fellowship program.

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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