Program can grow teachers who are hometown role models
A program that provides college scholarships to students who agree to return to their hometown to teach will help the Utica, N.Y., district retain a teaching staff that better reflects the diversity of its students, writes the editorial board of The Observer-Dispatch newspaper in Utica. The program, a partnership between the district and a nonprofit, will help more minority students become teachers in local schools, where the can be effective role models for students, the board writes.
Observer-Dispatch (Utica, N.Y.)
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This story published in ASCD SmartBrief on 11/06/2009
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