Grant

By Caroline Limuti
Summer Forty-Niner

Cal State Long Beach's College of Education received a three-year, $1.29 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education.  The Department of Education awarded 122 grants totaling $128 million over the next three years as a part of ‘Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology' grants program.  Eight Cal State Universities, including Long Beach, were awarded a total of $9.5 million, according to the public affairs office at CSULB.

"The money is about working with faculty in existing programs that help teachers to make sure they are competent, confident users of technology in the classroom," Robert Bredan, director of technology said. "Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology," or PT3, "encourages partnerships among colleges, universities elementary and secondary schools, community-based organizations and technology companies (and) will train 200,000 new teachers to become technology-proficient by the year 2003," according to public affairs office at CSULB.