The check was presented at a ceremony in Winants Hall on Rutgers' New Brunswick campus. Rosenstein and Warren Crown, professor of mathematics education at Rutgers' Graduate School of Education, were instrumental in securing both grants. Parents who attend FANS workshops participate in hands-on activities similar to those their children will be doing in classrooms implementing the new standards.
Parents also receive activities they can do at home with their children.
More than 500 volunteers have already been trained to serve as leaders for approximately 10,000 FANS workshops scheduled to take place throughout the state within the next two years. It is because of our dedication to supporting these efforts that we encouraged our employees who are parents to participate in the FANS workshop at Rutgers. Other organizations providing funding for FANS include New Jersey's Statewide Systemic Initiative, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Mid-Atlantic Eisenhower Consortium for Mathematics and Science Education, and Merck Institute for Science Education.