President Barack Obama cited the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship as a model of STEM teacher preparation in a January 2010 speech on his administration's "Educate to Innovate" initiative.
[1] In 2007, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation began to focus on the closing of achievement gap, both at the K-12 level and also for institutions of higher education.
The next states to create Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships, Michigan and Ohio, launched their programs in late 2009 [9][10] and 2010,[11] respectively.
[12] Partner school districts include Battle Creek, Benton Harbor, Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Kalamazoo.
The program works to recruit, support, and retain individuals of color as K-12 public school teachers in the United States.