Denver Teacher Wins $100,000 Kinder Prize
Recipient draws on Montessori method to enrich classroom.
Cool-to-the-touch stones, a miniature Jeep, and delicate teacups helped make Linda Alston’s classroom a learning portal par excellence, and now they have been part of winning the Denver kindergarten teacher a $100,000 award.
The Kinder Excellence in Teaching Award, named for its donors, Houston philanthropists Nancy and Rich Kinder, is thought to be the largest single unrestricted award ever given to an American precollegiate teacher.
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced the honor at a June 13 press conference here. She noted that about 90 percent of the students at Fairview Elementary School, where Ms. Alston teaches, are from low-income families. The award was limited to full-time classroom teachers in public or private schools where at least half the students qualify for free...
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