Bronx Congressman Eliot Engel recently announced that Lehman College’s Mathematics Achievement with Teachers of High-need Urban Populations (MATH-UP) program will receive a $7.6 million grant from the Department of Education’s Teacher Quality Grant Program.
Engel, a former educator, says the grant will improve education in the Bronx by better preparing teachers for the job.
The $7.6 million will create a new MATH-UP program aimed at training teachers of grades 1 through 6. Teachers will receive training before they begin teaching that will allow them to better communicate with students and, subsequently, impart a better grasp of mathematics.
“With this preparation, [teachers] will be able to give younger students a strong foundation in math upon which to build, including students with special needs and those for whom English is their second language,” said Lehman College President Ricardo R. Fernandez in a
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