After touring the White House Science Fair and meeting a team of 6-year-old robot-building supergirls, President Obama announced a new initiative for improving STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education. Tech News World dove a little deeper into the announcement, taking a look at the recent progress being made in STEM and where it is […]
This week, as New Jersey celebrates its STEM Week, Woodrow Wilson is proud of the contributions that its WW New Jersey Teaching Fellows are making in the state’s high-need math and science classrooms. Over at Education World, Woodrow Wilson’s Patrick Riccards why this work is so important: New Jersey will need to fill 269,000 STEM […]
Today’s school children are likely more interested in social media and Minecraft than singing along to “I’m just a bill,” says Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation’s Director of Media and Relations and Strategy Patrick Riccards. With the announcement of the new HistoryQuest Fellowship, launched in partnership with The Institute of Play, WW aims to use […]
It’s been nearly 30 years since South by Southwest (SXSW) launched what would become a national festival of innovation in music, film, technology, and culture. Since its 2011 inception, SXSWedu has become, as its own site says, “an event that celebrates educators as rock stars.” SXSWEdu is now known as the place to best understand […]
Recently, the team at WW got a look into the classrooms of some of our talented STEM Teaching Fellows at Pemberton High School in Pemberton, N.J. Here’s a look at what these new teachers are up to.
As far as WW is concerned, the Honorable Jerome Frese and Dr. Dolores Frese (both WF ’58) have won Valentine’s Day. While they aren’t the only married Woodrow Wilson Fellows, they’ve been Fellows—and man and wife—for 57 years. “The Woodrow Wilson Foundation launched our family,” says Judge Frese. In 1958, the recently engaged couple both […]
View image | gettyimages.com Along with colleagues and fans around the world, WW mourns the loss of Bob Simon, who was an honorary 1964 Woodrow Wilson Fellow. He had the designation “honorary” because he chose to resign his Fellowship and enter the Foreign Service, rather than pursue his intended Ph.D. in history. Those original Woodrow […]
Earlier this month, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation provided formal comments to the U.S. Department of Education about proposed changes to federal teacher preparation rules. Several Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows added their voices to the thousands of public comments that were submitted. WW Perspectives offers a sampling of some of those submissions in a series of […]
Earlier this month, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation provided formal comments to the U.S. Department of Education about proposed changes to federal teacher preparation rules. Several Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows added their voices to the thousands of public comments that were submitted. WW Perspectives offers a sampling of some of those submissions in a series of […]
Earlier this month, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation provided formal comments to the U.S. Department of Education about proposed changes to federal teacher preparation rules. Several Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows added their voices to the thousands of public comments that were submitted. WW Perspectives offers a sampling of some of those submissions in a series of […]
