The University of Texas-El Paso has received a $50,000 donation from the State Farm Companies Foundation to help fund the university’s teacher induction program. The donation will be used to support novice teachers in the El Paso, Socorro and Canutillo school districts. About 60 percent of new teachers in Texas leave the field within five years.
The Yale University Child Study Center (Conn.) has received a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The funding is tied to the center being named an NIH Autism Center of Excellence.
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