DETROIT, Aug. 22, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Marygrove College has received a grant of $700,000 from The Skillman Foundation to support the Good Schools Center at the College during the 2007-2008 academic year. Marygrove had been the site of the Good Schools Resource Center from 2003 through 2007.
As part of the Good Schools: Making the Grade Initiative, the Good Schools Center at Marygrove will identify best practices of high performing schools in the city of Detroit, support their further improvement and disseminate information about these schools as a catalyst for educational change and improvement.
Marygrove will manage the application and review process including site visits to K-12 schools in Detroit that are deemed by The Skillman Foundation to be high performing, improving, emerging or aspiring good schools. Marygrove will also share the best practices of good schools to educators and to the broader community.
Created in 1960, The Skillman Foundation is a private philanthropy whose chief aim is to help develop good schools and good neighborhoods for children. Though grants are made throughout Southeast Michigan, most grants are directed at six Detroit neighborhoods -- Southwest Detroit (Vernor and Chadsey-Condon), Brightmoor, Osborn, Central and Cody/Rouge -- and toward innovative and successful schools throughout the city of Detroit.
Dr. Kurt Smith, dean of Professional Studies, said, "Marygrove College is pleased to be able to continue our work with Detroit school teachers and administrators to improve the quality of education for Detroit's children. Marygrove has a successful track record of training future teachers and principals through our bachelor's and master's degree programs. We're also delighted that The Skillman Foundation continues to be confident in our ability to help the schools effect positive change."
Committed to a strategic vision of fostering "Urban Leadership," Marygrove College is a private liberal arts college located at 8425 W. McNichols Rd. in Detroit. More than 1,200 students attend classes in its undergraduate and graduate programs in education, business, human resource management, social justice, social work, science, theater, music, dance, the fine arts and many others. Nearly 3,000 students are enrolled in its online and distance learning Master in the Art of Teaching program as well as more than 5,000 in its non-credit programs. Call 866-313-1927 or visit www.marygrove.edu to Learn to Change the World.
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