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...hefty fees at graduate schools also prevent many teachers from going back to school. Even people who win the Conant fellowships must pay about $4000 towards their tuition and the fellowship is good ony for one year, the traditional length of a master's degree program. However, students who want to earn a doctorate must generally study for two years and then write a thesis...
...really tough. The Conant Fellowship is nice, but I have to live," says Elliot Stern, who is on leave this year from his job at Boston English High School. "I don't know how I'm going to finish," he adds. Stern is enrolled in the doctoral program at the Ed School and says he hopes to be able to finish his studies next year part-time while returning to work...
This year's Conant fellows may end up serving as an ongoing link between Harvard and the Cambridge and Boston school systems. All of the fellows are planning to return to work in Cambridge and Boston, although some may take on new responsibilities. Several of the six fellows are fulfilling requirements that will allow them to go into administration, but they say that they will continue to work in their urban school systems...
...Conant Fellowships represent just one recent effort by the University to increase its involvement in urban schooling, says Superintendent Peterkin. In 1984, a group called the Cambridge Partnership was founded in order to improve education in the city, and Peterkin attributes much of Harvard's recent participation to that group. He also cites Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck and Dean of the Education School Patricia A. Graham as important influences...
Murphy says he believes the Conant Fellowships have already begun to inspire other similar programs. "There's some evidence that [the Conants] are contagious," he says...