{"id":2611,"date":"2017-02-06T22:09:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T22:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/?page_id=2611"},"modified":"2020-01-08T05:38:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T05:38:56","slug":"2611-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/2611-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tJackson State University is part of a coalition of universities and partner school districts that will help reform programs that prepare teachers. &nbsp;The collaboration among six southern and southeastern population centers&nbsp;is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usprepnationalcenter.com\/about\/\">U.S.PREP<\/a> (University-School Partnerships for the Renewal of Educator Preparation).&nbsp;&nbsp;Texas Tech University received the grant from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/Media-Center\/Press-Releases\/2015\/11\/Teacher-Prep-Grants\">Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation<\/a>&nbsp;to create the national center to foster teacher reform. &nbsp;The coalition began with&nbsp;six universities in Texas and neighboring states. &nbsp;Aside from JSU, other universities in the first cohort benefiting from a $7 million grant awarded to Texas Tech University include University of North Texas, University of Houston, Southeastern Louisiana University and University of Memphis. &nbsp;The collaborative continues to&nbsp;expand to other universities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFor more information about U.S. PREP and the transformational changes that are in development for the preparation of current and future teacher candidate, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/files\/2017\/02\/Informational-Handout-What-does-it-mean-to-be-a-U.S.-PREP-Campus-web.pdf?x56568\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tClick<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsumsnews.com\/?p=30635\"> here<\/a>&nbsp; for news highlights on&nbsp;the graduation of the first Tiger Teach Cohort.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lcCyB4CjXBo\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2648\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/files\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-21-at-2.22.13-PM-1024x576.png\" width=\"758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/files\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-21-at-2.22.13-PM-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/files\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-21-at-2.22.13-PM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/files\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-21-at-2.22.13-PM-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/files\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-21-at-2.22.13-PM.png 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson State University is part of a coalition of universities and partner school districts that will help reform programs that prepare teachers. &nbsp;The collaboration among six southern and southeastern population centers&nbsp;is called U.S.PREP (University-School Partnerships for the Renewal of Educator Preparation).&nbsp;&nbsp;Texas Tech University received the grant from the&nbsp;Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation&nbsp;to create the national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_mc_calendar":[]},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2611"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2853,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2611\/revisions\/2853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}