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Announced at Harvard's 350th birthday celebration, the Conant Fellowships give six teachers $7000 each to pay part of a year's tuition at the Graduate School of Education. The first Conant Scholars entered the Ed School last fall...
...both ways. In fact private transfers of money and assets within families are just as likely, if not more likely to take place from old to young. "The traditional generosity of grandparents," says Author Lydia Bronte, formerly of the Carnegie Corporation, "now takes the form of helping with college tuition, down payment on a house, furniture -- not just a check every Christmas...
...scholarships, which are both administered by a Harvard Alumni Association committee, will each amount to approximately $18,000 this year to cover full tuition at Cambridge, room and board, travel, and vacation expenses...
There are, of course, disadvantages too. A growing number of teachers in Catholic parochial schools are lay men and women who are less experienced, younger and lower paid than their public school counterparts. And there is the cost. The mean annual tuition for a U.S. Catholic high school comes to $1,680 -- a considerable stretch for many inner-city parents. "They simply do without in order to send the kids here," says Sister Patricia Clune of Atlanta's St. Anthony's School. "We offer a disciplined environment and quality education in the religious setting the parents want...
...prospect of getting ahead in the world. "I told my mother I wanted to come here because I wanted to learn and be somebody," says Albert Calderon, 15, a sophomore at Cardinal Hayes. His mother, Mirtha Astacio, is a cleaning woman, and her brother helps her pay the tuition. Albert's aspiration: "I want to be what you call a boss...