Grant to Union To Verse Chicago Teachers in Reform
The Chicago Teachers Union last week received a $l.l-million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to support a three-year effort to help the city's 26,000 teachers apply research about effective teaching and learning practices in their schools.
The grant--believed to be the largest ever given to a teachers' union by a private philanthropy--is part of the foundation's Chicago Education Initiative, a 10-year, $40million commitment to supporting school reform announced in/990. (See Education Week, Oct. 17, 1990.)
The donation will support the new C.T.U. Quest Center, which will disseminate information about promising teaching practices and award grants to 40 schools to test...
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