Contact: Paige Watson
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State is receiving a nearly $200,000 Library of Congress grant to help upgrade social studies curricula in local grades three-12.
University faculty members Kenneth V. Anthony, Paul E. Binford and Nicole C. Miller in the College of Education will use the funding to enhance and expand the work of teachers in the recently organized Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District.
All three are assistant professors in the college’s Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Special Education. Their 2016 award was among 21 proposals selected from applications submitted to the library by more than 75 organizations and institutions around the country.
The MSU grant will enable participating SOCSD teachers to receive specialized professional development training in the use of primary instructional sources. They also will be provided with accompanying technological support, both to develop and implement their individual projects and to share them over time with other Mississippi teachers.
Lee Ann Potter, the library’s educational outreach director, welcomed MSU and other new grant recipients into the Teaching with Primary Sources Educational Consortium, which she described as “a community dedicated to increasing awareness and effective use of primary sources and other educational resources.”
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Complete information on the College of Education and its departments is found at www.educ.msstate.edu.
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