Teach For America-Baltimore
$100,000 / 2001 / Education
For expansion of the program to recruit, select, train and provide ongoing support for 100 Teach For America corps members. Recent college graduates are then placed in 34 Baltimore City public schools.
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.
Lake Clifton-Eastern High School
$140,000 / 2000 / Education
For continued support of NOVEL, an educational program for academically at-risk students for the 2000-2001 school year. The computerized school-based educational program is designed as a prevention project for students in danger of dropping out of school.
Johns Hopkins University Center for Social Organization of Schools
$139,617 / 2000 / Education
Two-year funding for evaluations of Abell-funded education initiatives.