The DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund has awarded a $2 million, four-year grant to The National Writing Project (NWP) to improve writing instruction in schools with high populations of low-income students. The project is based at the Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley.
NWP conducts four- or five-week summer institutes and courses throughout the year at sites around the country for teachers in grades K-12 who teach writing as part of their curriculum.
To help teachers who work with low-income students, NWP sites in 10 urban locations joined together in 1991 to create a new professional development model. NWP estimates that by the end of the grant period, participating sites will serve 20 percent more teachers of low-income students than they now do, and that their development programs will be more relevant to the needs of these educators.
Also, because many who take part in NWP programs receive additional training to lead courses and workshops for other teachers in their own schools, this new program will create a cadre of teacher-leaders that better reflects the ethnic and racial diversity of the nation's teaching corps.
The National Writing Project, the nation's largest teacher development network, consists of 150 sites across the nation, most based on college campuses.
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