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Penn is encouraging some of its best and brightest students to stay in the classroom long after they graduate.
As one of four host sites of the Leonore Annenberg/Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship program, Penn hopes that some of its top undergraduate arts-and-sciences students will seek long-term teaching careers in high-need public school classrooms. Candidates who agree to teach for three years in low-income schools will each receive a $30,000 stipend to support one year of graduate education at one of the nation's top teacher-education programs.
Faculty from Penn's School of Arts and Sciences and Graduate School of Education will seek candidates who show a commitment to high-need communities, education and schoolchildren. The first fellows will be named in the spring of 2009 during their senior year, and will begin their master's degrees and student teaching during the 2009-10 academic year. They will start classroom teaching as public school employees in 2010.
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