Program

Education Programs: Institutes for K-12 Educators

Period of Performance

10/1/1981 - 9/30/1984

Funding Totals

$75,000.00 (approved)
$75,000.00 (awarded)


Project Heroes

FAIN: ES-*2185-81

Churchill Center for Learning Disabilities (New York, NY 10028)
Claire Wurtzel (Project Director: April 1981 to October 1990)

To support teacher training as well as teaching aids and new curriculum units to expand "Project Heroes," which teaches the humanities to learning disabled children by having them research and write about the lives of people, famous and non-famous, who succeeded in life despite learning problems.