Grant To Help N.Y.C. Teachers Earn Their Master's

The DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation last week awarded a $1.2-million grant to Hunter College and Lehman College to help uncertified teachers in New York City's most disadvantaged schools earn their master's degrees.

The collaborative program, known as "Pathways to Teaching,'' is designed to stem the high attrition rate of novice teachers in the city's public schools, according to Maria Terrone, a Hunter College spokesman.

Approximately 25 percent of new teachers in the city left their jobs after their first year in 1990, Ms. Terrone said, a rate nearly 10 percent higher than figures from...