John Templeton Foundation
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The John Templeton Foundation tries to encourage the integration of religious beliefs and free-market principles into the classroom.
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- Atlas Economic Research Foundation: Templeton and Atlas provide the Templeton Freedom Prizes for Excellence in Promoting Liberty giving $15,000 to "market-oriented poverty programs; for ethics and values; for social entrepreneurship and for student outreach". Under the awards it is planned that $1.25 million will be distributed between now and 2007.
- Leonard Liggio is executive director of the project.
- Business for Sterling: Received donation from John Templeton.
- E.G. West Centre: Funded the course Educational Freedom: A Global Perspective [1] (http://www.atlasusa.org/programs/pdf/2001_ifp_unitedkingdom_newcastle.pdf) at the centre, which promotes "market solutions in education".
- Wheaton College (Illinois) "has consistently been the top nominee on the John Templeton Foundation Honor Roll for Character Building Colleges."
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Nicholas Colangelo, author of "A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students"
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External links
- Official website (http://www.templeton.org/)
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Press coverage
- John Tierney, When Every Child is Good Enough (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/weekinreview/21tier.html?ex=1258779600&en=7c4fe0c0975e07d8&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland), New York Times, November 21, 2004
- "... a recent report, "A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students," by the John Templeton Foundation [] summarizes research showing that gifted children thrive with more advanced material and describes their current frustration ...: 'When they want to fly, they are told to stay in their seats. Stay in your grade. Know your place. It's a national scandal.'"
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