| Lynch School awarded $5 million to
improve education at the source
The Lynch School of Education has received a five-year
grant of $5 million from the Carnegie Corporation to participate in
Teachers for a New Era (TNE), an initiative to strengthen teacher training
that is funded also by the Annenberg, Ford, and Rockefeller foundations.
TNE aims to bolster K–12 education by supporting
training programs that will offer original research, extensive field
experience, and a rigorous arts and sciences education for future teachers.
Since the program was launched two years ago, 11 institutions, among
them the Bank Street College of Education, the University of Virginia,
and Stanford University, have accepted invitations to take part.
John J. Burns, associate academic vice president
for undergraduate programs, will serve as Boston College's
TNE project manager. The grant, which BC is committed to match, will
enable the University to extend its partnerships with the Boston Public
Schools (LSOE has collaborated with 19 local schools over the past decade).
The funds will bring more public school teachers to BC to team-teach
with Lynch School faculty; and there are plans to establish full-time
student-teaching placements within five area schools. A portion of the
TNE grant will provide mentoring and seminars for recent LSOE graduates.
TNE will also fund an extensive study of Lynch
School graduates and their pupils, according to LSOE professor Marilyn
Cochran-Smith, who collaborated on the grant proposal. The study will
incorporate existing data from state-mandated assessment tests and other
sources, says Cochran-Smith, along with new, qualitative measures of
teachers' effectiveness.
Nicole Estvanik
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