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June 30, 2008
Columbia U.'s Teachers College to Work With Public Schools in Harlem
Columbia University’s Teachers College has received a $5-million grant from the GE Foundation to form partnerships with 10 public schools in Harlem to increase their focus on mathematics, science, engineering, and technology education.
Faculty members at Teachers College and at the university’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science will work with the local schools to devise rigorous math and science curricula, create afterschool programs for students, incorporate technology into the classroom, and increase teachers’ knowledge of developments in math and science.
The college will devise a final list of partner schools this summer and hopes to later expand the effort to other schools and subject areas. “The partnerships being initiated with this funding represent the first step in our creation of a robust network of TC-affiliated public schools in upper Manhattan,” said the college’s president, Susan H. Fuhrman, in a written statement. —Paula Wasley
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The title seems to suggest this is the first time something like this has occurred…but the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project currently works with more than 10,000 educators and is involved in hundreds of schools throughout NYC.
10 schools? That’s it? Why wasn’t the rest of TC doing this a decade ago?
— M S Jun 30, 06:31 PM #
Given Columbia’s continuing contentious relationship with the surrounding community (i.e. Harlem), this will be an interesting endeavor.
For the sake of the students, I wish them well.
— Columbia Prof Jul 1, 10:05 AM #