CH-50926-12 | Challenge Programs: Challenge Grants | Teachers College, Columbia University | History Education for All: A Proposal to Establish a Center for History Education at Teachers College at Columbia University | 12/1/2010 - 7/31/2016 | $425,000.00 | Thomas | | James | | | | Teachers College, Columbia University | New York | NY | 10027-6605 | USA | 2011 | U.S. History | Challenge Grants | Challenge Programs | 0 | 425000 | 0 | 425000 | Endowment for a Center for History Education that includes a graduate fellowship program, a digital history portal, and curricular innovations.
Teachers College proposes a major three-year campaign to endow a Center for History Education with the mission of improving the teaching and learning of American history in high-poverty schools with diverse populations, especially new immigrants and English Language Learners. The focus of these efforts will be to address the question: What does it mean to be an American? The Center’s mission will be to provide a national model of history education for the increasingly diverse student population nationwide through on-site and online professional development activities. The grant endowment will specifically support: establishment of a Center for History Education; development of teaching and learning materials in history to be field-tested with local teachers and put onto a web portal; two fully funded History Fellows (stipend and scholarship) who will develop high-quality teaching resources designed specifically for these student populations. |