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Achieving Long-term Objectives
The
Abell Foundation makes multi-year commitments to develop initiatives
based on in-depth research. The following programs, designed to satisfy
unmet needs in problem areas facing Baltimore City's educational community,
serve as pilots. Long-term funding for implementation and evaluation
works to ensure that the initiatives' impact on programs are meaningfully
positive, so that the programs can be confidently replicated and/or
institutionalized.
Ingenuity Project
An ambitious effort to provide an accelerated
math and science curriculum to eligible Baltimore City middle and
high school students, with a symbolic goal of enabling students to
compete in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search competition, now
known as the Intel.
National Academic League
An academic competition designed to
increase middle school achievement. The program seeks to improve students'
perception of academic effort, preparation and achievement, and serves
as an aid in improving student academic performance across the curriculum.
Baltimore City College Speech & Debate Program
An historic and long dormant Speech
and Debate program revised by The Abell Foundation in 1997 to enable
City College to build its reputation as the region's leading high
school for forensic studies.
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