One such Millennium School is Frontier Regional Middle and Senior High School, which serves Franklin County, Massachusetts, the poorest and most rural county in the state. Through this project, the American Studies curriculum will be strengthened for grades 7-12 by increasing the use of digitized resources. These Millennium Schools represent some of the best thinking on how to exploit the opportunities that technology offers to improve teacher training and student learning. NEH will announce another group of planning grant recipients in the fall and hopes to announce implementation grants in FY2000. Within minutes the teacher has both information on the topic and a syllabus for their grade level that outlines how to present the subject in class.
Research is critical to our nation's lifeblood of educational and cultural life.
We have supported six Pulitzer Prize winning books through our Research Division, including James McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom and Jack Rakove's Original Meanings, about the making of the Constitution. We have had many success stories in Public Programs. The NEH was the principle funder for the recently aired program, MacArthur, which I've already mentioned, and next year Ken Burns will air his 20-part series on Jazz which the Endowment also funded. As someone who grew up on a farm, I am especially pleased to report that the Endowment is addressing the needs of rural America. Celebrating an American Icon.