Kellogg Foundation Awards $16.7 Million to Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

“Research has shown again and again that the most important element in a student’s success is the teacher,” said Arthur Levine, the president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and a respected expert on teacher education. “America’s schools of education are facing the extraordinary challenge of having to prepare a new breed of teacher, ready to teach the most diverse population of students in our history to the highest levels of skills and knowledge ever required--all in an outcomes-based system of education. This Fellowship emphasizes intensive practical preparation, rigorous grounding in the subject matter, and extensive supervised teaching experience in the same kind of high-need urban and rural schools where Fellows will later teach.”