The Piney Woods School
$141,320 / 2001 / Education
To provide scholarships at a boarding school for selected at-risk Baltimore City adolescent male students for the 2001-2002 school year. The grant includes funding for the salary of a retention counselor whose responsibilities are to encourage positive attitudes, appropriate social behavior and academic achievement.
Baltimore City Public School System/The Barclay School
$5,000 / 2000 / Education
To provide staff training for new teachers in the Calvert curriculum for the 2000-2001 school year.
The Ingenuity Project
$731,243 / 2000 / Education
For support of the 2000-2001 Ingenuity Project, an intensive math and science curriculum for Baltimore City public middle school and high school students with emphasis on scientific research opportunities.
Baltimore City Public School System/Edgecombe Circle Elementary School
$64,676 / 2000 / Education
For support of the Bridges to Learning Program for the 2000-2001 school year. The program consists of individualized assessment of students’ cognitive and perceptual learning abilities, and individualized plans for remediation, based on the Structure of Intellect model of intelligence.
Johns Hopkins University Center for Social Organization of Schools
$10,000 / 2000 / Education
Two grants for an evaluation of the NOVEL Program, a computerized school-based educational program designed for students in danger of dropping out of Lake Clifton-Eastern High School.